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" (The Wedding Dance)

The story is happening in a Romanian-Hungarian-Jewish village in Transylvania. AndrЁўs BЁўrЁўny - the son of the rich farmer - has his bridegroom's farewell party, he is about to marry the poor but very pretty RЁ®zsi PatkЁ®s. This bridegroom's farewell party seems to be too long, since as it turns out, RЁ®zsi doesn't have the documents needed to be married. After her parents' death nothing is left, no house, no money, no documents about the girl /certificate of birth or baptism /. The girl is working in the farmstead and she lives there, too. The notary Cosma - following the advice of Mrs. Majzik, who knows about everything what happened in the last 50 years here in the settlement - turns to the orphanage in KolozsvЁўr to get some information. The answers from the orphanage puts light on the fact that RЁ®zsi is not the daughter of the PatkЁ®s family, she was only adopted by them and they have risen her as their own daughter. Her real father is the late Salamon Blum, the owner of the mill, and her mother is the seduced maid-of-all-work, Regina Weisz, who died after the birth very soon. The "corpus delicti" was given to the children's home secretly.
So it turns out, that RЁ®zsi, who was believed to be a **istian, is a Jew! And she doesn't have the slightest idea what it is! She went to church as a faithful Catholic, she has made confession, and Communion and if she had a problem she turned to St. Anthony for help. AndrЁўs BЁўrЁўny had a shock when hearing the terrible turn. It is not enough that her bride is a foundling but she is a Blum descendant, too! He feels he has to disappear, he has to run away! He joins the army against his father's protest.
RЁ®zsi defends herself in vain saying that "Not everybody is lucky enough to be born into a family of his or her choice", her present company, acquaintances, friends reject her. The Jewish innkeeper of the village, uncle Herskovics with some philosophical inclination, takes the desperate RЁ®zsi into protection. He gives her home - and in his own way- he begins to teach her to her new faith.
The wife of Salamon Blum gets very upset at the fist time, when the fickleness of her late husband turns out, but later she gets curious to learn RЁ®zsi. She always wanted to have a child and this person out of law is a Blum descendant ... After all, Herskovics has used to court Mrs. Blum, as well, but the woman - who knows why? - has chosen the rich owner of the mill. Mrs. Blum get to like RЁ®zsi and would like to rise her up as her own daughter. She wants to take her into wealth, into the Jewish community. But she is not accepted there either, she is expelled from there, too, she is none one of them, "the essentially still **istian person" according them...