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Obituary: Marcel Vinokur, folk dance teacher

Original post made on Mar 3, 2015

A memorial in honor of Marcel Vinokur, who taught dance classes in Menlo Park for decades, will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18, in the Lucie Stern Community Center ballroom, 1305 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. He died Nov. 14 in his Palo Alto home at the age of 85.

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Posted by Kathelen
a resident of another community
on Mar 3, 2015 at 3:03 pm

I am so sorry to hear that Marcel Vinokur passed away recently. What a great loss to the area! In the 1970s I often drove from San Jose over to his international folk dance parties on the weekend. Nearly 100 people danced together all night long. First Marcel would patiently and untiringly teach some dances, and then the rest of the evening he took requests, Israeli, Scottish, American, he had them all. He was a brilliant, kind, generous man, and I am so sorry he is gone.
I found this sad announcement of our loss of Marcel Vinokur while searching the web for Vinokur lemon cake. His wife made wonderful desserts for the international folk dance parties, and I was wild about her lemon cake, the best ever. I can't find my recipe and want it badly. I'm sorry I haven't been able to find the recipe on the Internet, and I'm sorrier still about our loss of a wonderful man, Marcel Vinokur.

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