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Updated: July 17, 2025
Once she half starved herself and put aside ninepence a week for almost three months and purchased one-eighth of a lottery ticket from Sugarman the Shadchan, who recognized her existence for the occasion. The fortune did not come off.
Would you become a jewellery shop? the baffled Shadchan shrieked through the woodwork. He returned to Elias, brooding darkly. 'Well? queried Elias. 'O, your love matches! And Sugarman shook them away with shuddersome palms. 'Then she won't 'No, she won't. Ah, how blessed you are to escape from that daughter of Satan! The greengrocer's daughter now 'Speak me no more matches.
'And how else should I live? Do you think I get fat on this inn? But people stay here from all towns around; I get to know a great circle of marriageable parties. I can show you a much larger stock than the ordinary Shadchan. 'Nu! Let your ear-locks grow the dowry grows with them. Mine host had quite recovered his greasy familiarity.
I searched the Shass and a heap of Shaalotku-Tshuvos. I went and consulted the Maggid and Sugarman the Shadchan and Mr. Karlkammer, and at last we decided that the fowl was tripha and could not be eaten. So the same evening I sent for the woman, and when I told her of our decision she burst into tears and wrung her hands.
The fair was the only book-market At other times the Jews were dependent on the casual visits of travelling venders of volumes. The merchant who came to the fair also fulfilled another function that of Shadchan. The day of the fair was, in fact, the crisis of the year. Naturally, the letter-carrier was eagerly received.
Belcovitch, whirling a medicine-bottle, went down the middle on a pair of huge stilts, one a thick one and one a thin one, while Malka spun round like a teetotum, throwing Ezekiel in long clothes through a hoop; what time Moses Ansell waltzed superbly with the dazzling Addie Leon, quite cutting out Levi and Miriam Hyams, and Raphael awkwardly twisted the Widow Finkelstein, to the evident delight of Sugarman the Shadchan, who had effected the introduction.
His aid was also invoked as a Shadchan, though he forgot to take his commissions and lacked the restless zeal for the mating of mankind which animated Sugarman, the professional match-maker. In fine, he was a witty old fellow and everybody loved him. He and his wife spoke English with a strong foreign accent; in their more intimate causeries they dropped into Yiddish.
And the contract was duly written, in the presence of the assembled families of both parties, after plenty of open discussion, in which everybody except the prospective bride and groom had a voice. One voice in particular broke repeatedly into the consultations of the parents and the shadchan, and that was the voice of Henne Rösel, one of my father's numerous poor cousins.
How soon it came, the pious burden of wifehood! One day the girl is playing forfeits with her laughing friends, the next day she is missed from the circle. Her parents are pleased with the son-in-law proposed by the shadchan, and now, at the last, the girl is brought in, to be examined and appraised by the prospective parents-in-law.
"You won't charge me more than a sovereign?" "Not a groschen more! Such a pious maiden! I'm sure you will be happy. "H'm! Well, I don't mind!" "Perhaps they won't give a dowry," he thought with a consolatory sense of outwitting the Shadchan. On the Saturday Leibel went to see the damsel, and on the Sunday he went to see Sugarman the Shadchan. "But your maiden squints!" he cried, resentfully.
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