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The Jewish Voice
Jenny Jimenez
What do Hasids, Harry Belafonte and the German ice skating team have in common? They all sing (or skate) to the tune of “Hava Nagila”! By Paula Sigal Special to The Jewish Voice This song is instantly recognizable to us, but what do we know of its origins? In fact, it took a couple of hundred years to travel from an Eastern European Hasidic shtetl to the international world stage. That in-
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credible journey is featured in “Hava Nagila (The Movie),” an upbeat, spirited film premiering in Providence on Dec. 7. Arts Emanu-El at Temple Emanu-El is sponsoring Providence’s first screening of “Hava Nagila,” a documentary THE MOVIE | 25