Tanzhaus
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Tanzhaus (literally “dance house”).
Noun
[edit]Tanzhaus
- (historical) A late Middle Ages Jewish European dancehall
- 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 205:
- Especially in the Rhineland, hundreds of men and women danced to utter exhaustion. Lasting until the beginning of the fifteenth century, this epidemic carried over into the Jewish ghettos, where a Tanzhaus was found.