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It Could Lead to Dancing
2021
Overview
Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues
for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any
reader of Pride and Prejudice , War and Peace , or
Romeo and Juliet can attest. The popularity of social
dance transcends class, gender, ethnic, and national boundaries. In
the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jewish culture,
dance offers crucial insights into debates about emancipation and
acculturation. While traditional Jewish law prohibits men and women
from dancing together, Jewish mixed-sex dancing was understood as
the very sign of modernity--and the ultimate boundary
transgression.
Writers of modern Jewish literature deployed dance scenes as a
charged and complex arena for understanding the limits of
acculturation, the dangers of ethnic mixing, and the implications
of shifting gender norms and marriage patterns, while
simultaneously entertaining their readers. In this pioneering
study, Sonia Gollance examines the specific literary qualities of
dance scenes, while also paying close attention to the broader
social implications of Jewish engagement with dance. Combining
cultural history with literary analysis and drawing connections to
contemporary representations of Jewish social dance, Gollance
illustrates how mixed-sex dancing functions as a flexible metaphor
for the concerns of Jewish communities in the face of cultural
transitions.
