Paper cuttings for Shavuos — a Jewish folk tradition
When Mayer Kirshenblatt was a young boy in Opatow, Poland, in the 1920s, a memorable way of celebrating the spring holiday of Shavuos was decorating the home with greenery and original paper cuttings, known as shvueslekh, pronounced in his Polish-Yiddish dialect as shevieslekh. (They were also called reyzelekh or royzelekh, which means little roses.) In…