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Item #3 (High-Intermediate Level)
Hava Nagila
More than bagel with lox, more than Seinfeld or Woody Allen, the song
Hava Nagila symbolizes modern Jewish folklore more than anything. This
song has many, many versions. It began its path in a Shtetl in the Ukraine
as a Hassidic melody, but the father of Hebrew musicology Abraham Zevi
Idelsohn turned it into the popular happy song. He wrote the lyrics at the
right place and time, immediately after the Balfour Declaration, which
helped the song become popular with Jews all over the world. So even
when the relationship between Israel and the Jews of the United States is
in crisis, when (they) hear Hava Nagila at a wedding or a Ber Mitzvah,
everyone comes to dance.
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