A prayer dedicated to “our brethren… who remain in distress and captivity”, has accompanied the Jewish nation since the ninth century. It was sung during WWI, at Hasidic music festivals, and just recently at a spontaneous gathering of soldiers in a darkened house in Gaza, after they had lost two of their beloved commanders
The Enigmatic Researcher of the Magic of Music
Robert Lachmann – Between Orientalism and the East
Hava Nagilah – The Birth of a Song
The story of ecstasy that produced the most famous Jewish song in the world.
The Composer Paul Ben-Chaim and his Journey from Germany to the Middle East
Ben-Chaim’s story is the story of a German Jew who experienced the brunt of the rupture led by the upheavals of fate in his time
