Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Purimshpiel II: Net.Religion.Jewish Song Parody Message-ID: <666@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 22:17:14 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.666 Posted: Mon Mar 11 22:17:14 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 22:48:51 EST References: <323@lcuxc.UUCP> <109@mit-athena.UUCP> Organization: Huxley College Lines: 7 > I should point out that the Purimshpil is a custom which originates in > Christian observance of Fasching (the Mardi Gras) and is unknown among > Sefardic and oriental Jews. [Yehoyaqim Martillo] I take this to mean that, by Martillo's reckoning, the custom is thus not "really" Jewish, since those who practice "true" Judaism have never heard of it.