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"Hava Nagila" is one of the first modern Jewish folk songs in the Hebrew language.It went on to become a staple of band performers at Jewish weddings and bar/bat(b'nei) mitzvah celebrations.
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.
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 ...
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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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.
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These were prompted by review of Hava Nagila (The Movie), a citation which has now been added, which supported 2-3 sentences that were heretofore unreferenced. Even so, the Origins section remains a largely unreferenced, as does the section listing all the productions of the piece, and so a tag was added to the article noting that until it is ...