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Now the dance is usually performed to Israeli folk songs, and sometimes to Jewish songs, often to the music of "Hava Nagila". To start the dance, everybody forms a circle, holding hands or interlocking arms behind their backs or on their shoulders, [4] and steps forward toward the left with the right foot, then follows with the left foot. The ...
Hava Nagila - Wikipedia
The Horah is a Jewish circle dance typically danced to the music of Hava Nagila. It is traditionally danced at Jewish weddings and other joyous occasions in the Jewish community. [5] The popularity of Horah in Israel is attributed by some to the Romanian Jewish dancer Baruch Agadati.
Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. [1] The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening; these would have been played at weddings and other social functions.
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When I was growing up my family had a Harry Belafonte record, and my sister and I spent many hours singing and dancing to "DAY-O (The Banana Boat Song)" and "Hava Nagila."
It is said that the twelve-year-old Nathanson suggested (Psalm 118: 24), "Zeh hayom asah Adonai; nagila v’nismekha vo" inspiring the famous Hava Nagila. [ 4 ] Nathanson left Jerusalem and immigrated to Quebec, Canada on September 7, 1920, where he later began to attend McGill University in 1922 where he pursued a law degree but later ...
Grossman and Sophie Sartain’s Hava Nagila: The Movie was released in 2012. The film was produced by Marta Kauffman. The feature-length documentary traced the journey of the song, Hava Nagila, from Ukraine to YouTube.