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'Hava Nagila' (Hebrew: הבה נגילה, Havah Nagilah, 'Let us rejoice') is an Israeli folk song traditionally sung at Jewish celebrations. It is perhaps the first modern Israeli folk song in the Hebrew language that has become a staple of band performers at Jewish weddings and bar/bat(b'nei) mitzvah celebrations. The melody is based on a HassidicNigun.[1] It was composed in 1915 in Ottoman Palestine, when Hebrew was being revived as a spoken language after falling into disuse in this form for approximately 1,700 years, following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE and the Bar Kokhba revolt in 132–136 CE. For the first time, Jews were being encouraged to speak Hebrew as a common language, instead of Yiddish, Arabic, Ladino, or other regional Jewish languages.
- 4Use in sports
- 4.1Association football
Origin[edit]
Abraham Zevi Idelsohn (1882–1938), a professor at Hebrew University, began cataloging all known Jewish music and teaching classes in musical composition; one of his students was a promising cantorial student, Moshe Nathanson,[2] who (with the rest of his class) was presented by the professor with a 19th-century, slow, melodious, chant (niggun or nigun) and assigned to add rhythm and words to fashion a modern Hebrew song.[citation needed] There are competing claims regarding Hava Nagila's composer, with both Idelsohn and Nathanson being suggested.[3][4]
The niggun he presented has been attributed to the Sadigurer Chasidim, who lived in what is now Ukraine,[3] which uses the Phrygian dominant scale common in Jewish music of Transylvania.[citation needed] The commonly used text was probably refined by Idelsohn.[5][better source needed][6][original research?]
In 1918, the song was one of the first songs designed to unite the early Yishuv [Jewish enterprise] that arose after the British victory in Palestine during World War I and the Balfour Declaration, declaring a national Jewish homeland in the lands newly removed from Turkey's control by the Allies and entrusted to Britain under the Treaty of Versailles.[citation needed] Although Psalm 118 (verse 24) of the Hebrew Bible may have been a source for the text of 'Hava Nagila',[citation needed] the expression of the song and its accompanying hora ('circle') dance was entirely secular in its outlook.[citation needed]
Lyrics[edit]
Transliteration | Hebrew text | English translation |
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Hava nagila | הבה נגילה | Let's rejoice |
Hava nagila | Let's rejoice | |
Hava nagila ve-nismeḥa | הבה נגילה ונשמחה | Let's rejoice and be happy |
(repeat) | ||
Hava neranenah | Let's sing | |
Hava neranenah | הבה נרננה | Let's sing |
Hava neranenah ve-nismeḥa | Let's sing and be happy | |
(repeat) | ||
Uru, uru aḥim! | !עורו, עורו אחים | Awake, awake, my brothers! |
Uru aḥim be-lev sameaḥ | Awake my brothers with a happy heart | |
(repeat line four times) | ||
Uru aḥim, uru aḥim! | !עורו אחים, עורו אחים | Awake, my brothers, awake, my brothers! |
Be-lev sameaḥ | With a happy heart |
Note: The “ḥ” can be pronounced as a voiceless pharyngeal fricative[ħ] (as in classical Hebrew) or a voiceless uvular fricative[χ], as “ch” as in Bach (modern Hebrew pronunciation).
Notable performers[edit]
- Idelsohn produced the first commercial recording in 1922, on the Polyphon record label ('Order No. 8533.'), as part of a series which recorded 39 Hebrew folk songs.[7][full citation needed]
- Singer Harry Belafonte is known for his version of the song, which was recorded for his album Belafonte at Carnegie Hall in 1959.[8] He rarely gave a concert without singing it, and stated that the two “stand out” songs from his professional career were “The Banana Boat Song,” and “Hava Nagila”.[3][9] Belafonte noted and claimed, 'Life is not worthwhile without it. Most Jews in America learned that song from me.'[10]
- Irving Fields[9]
- Betty Madigan, 'Dance Everyone Dance' (US #31, 1958)[11]
- Chubby Checker[9]
- Connie Francis[9]
- Dick Dale and the Del Tones (surf rock)[9]
- Glen Campbell[9]
- Celia Cruz[9]
- Bob Dylan[9]
- Frank Slay and his Orchestra, 'Flying Circle' (US #45, 1962)[12]
- Perez Prado, 'The Twist of Hava Nagila'
- The Spotnicks[13]
- Four Jacks and a Jill released a version of the song on their 1965 album, Jimmy Come Lately.[14]
- Lena Horne, 'Now!' (US #92, 1963)[9][15]
- Jon Lord of Deep Purple included Hava Nagila in his solo keyboard improvisations as heard on Made in Europe (1975).[16]
- Neil Diamond, in addition to having performed Hava Nagila in his 1994 Live In America concert,[17] incorporated it into The Jazz Singer, based on Samson Raphaelson's play, in which he acted out a cantor with popular-music ambitions.
- Pete Townshend, whose ability to play the song was instrumental to his induction in The Who.[18]
- Brave Combo[19]
- Dream Theater performed a cover of 'Hava Nagila' in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 16, 2009.[20]
- Israeli singer Carmela Corren[21]
- Me First and the Gimme Gimmes[22]
Use in sports[edit]
Association football[edit]
Ajax Amsterdam[edit]
Supporters of the Dutch association football club AFC Ajax, although not an official Jewish club, commonly use Jewish imagery. A central part of Ajax fans' culture, the song Hava Nagila can often be heard sung in the Stadium by the teams supporters, and at one point ringtones of 'Hava Nagila' could even be downloaded from the club's official website.[23][24][25]
Tottenham Hotspur[edit]
Supporters of the English football club Tottenham Hotspur commonly refer to themselves as Yids and are strongly associated with Jewish symbolism and culture. 'Hava Nagila' has been adopted as an anthem of sorts by the club, and was one of the most frequently sung songs at White Hart Lane.[26][27]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^Loeffler, James. 'Hava Nagila's Long, Strange Trip. The unlikely history of a Hasidic melody'. myjewishlearning.com. My Jewish Learning.
Like many modern Israeli and popular Jewish songs, Hava Nagila began its life as a Hasidic melody in Eastern Europe
- ^Nathanson, who later worked in New York, most famously composed the nearly-universal melody that is sung with the Birkat Hamazon ('Grace After Meals').[citation needed]
- ^ abcRoberta Grossman, Director/Producer; Sophie Sartain, Writer/Producer (2012). Hava Nagila (The Movie)(NTSC B&W and color, widescreen, closed-captioned). Los Angeles, CA, USA: Katahdin Productions, More Horses Productions. OCLC859211976. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
The song you thought you knew. The story you won't believe.
- ^NPR staff, 2013, 'Film Hoists 'Hava Nagila' Up Onto A Chair, In Celebration Of Song And Dance.' NPR (online), February 28, 2013, see [1], accessed 3 September 2015.
- ^Yudelson, Larry. 'Who wrote Havah Nagilah?'. RadioHazak. Larry Yudelson. Archived from the original on 2008-07-29. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^In an appearance on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs on 28 October 2007, Idelsohn's grandson Joel Joffe referred to his grandfather as the author of 'Hava Nagila', but in the programme notes it says 'Composer: Bashir Am Israelim', meaning that either this is an alias for Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, to whom Joffe was clearly referring in the programme, or (more plausibly) the programme notes contain a mistranscription of 'Shir Am Yisraeli', meaning 'Israeli folksong'.
- ^Joffe: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn[full citation needed]
- ^Belafonte, Harry (1959) Belafonte at Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert (LP) RCA Victor LOC-6006
- ^ abcdefghi'Hava Nagila, What Is It? (Part I)' at YouTube[unreliable source?]
- ^Leland, John. (2004) Hip: The History, New York, NY, USA: HarperCollins, p. 206.
- ^Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN0-89820-089-X
- ^Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN0-89820-089-X
- ^Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 521. ISBN1-904994-10-5.
- ^Four Jacks and a Jill, Jimmy Come Lately Retrieved May 13, 2015
- ^Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN0-89820-089-X
- ^'Set Lists 1968 to 1976'. The Highway Star. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
- ^Neil Diamond Live In America 1994, at YouTube
- ^Rogovoy, Seth (2019-11-12). 'The Secret Jewish History of The Who'. The Forward. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
- ^'Hava Nagila Twist', on The Hokey Pokey:Organized Dancing (1991)
- ^Dream Theater: vídeo de música Judaica no show em Israel, luew, 19/06/09
- ^https://www.discogs.com/Carmela-Corren-International/release/10217442#
- ^'Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah'. Fat Wreck Chords. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^Amsterdam Journal; A Dutch Soccer Riddle: Jewish Regalia Without Jews, The New York Times, 28 March 2005.
- ^Hava Nagila! – Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad, 15 October 2013
- ^'Waar komt de geuzennaam 'Joden' toch vandaan?', Het Parool, 1 February 2014.
- ^Promised Land: A Northern Love Story – Anthony Clavane, 12 February 2014
- ^The Yid Army’s chants turn anti-semitism into kitsch banter, Financial Times, 20 September 2013.
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External links[edit]
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- Hava Nagila's Long, Strange Trip at My Jewish Learning
- Hora Music, How do you sing and dance 'Hava Nagila' - lyrics and steps
- Hava Nagila at HebrewSongs.com
- Harry Belafonte sings 'Hava Nagila' with Danny Kaye (1966) on YouTube
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