"Hava Nagila" - Jewish Folk Song (175 Subscribers Special)

I turned comments off so offensive jokes won&be commented. "Hava Nagila" (Hebrew: "הָבָה נָגִילָה", English trans: "Let us Rejoice") is a Jewish folk song. It is traditionally sung at weddings. It was written in 1918 and it quickly spread throughout the Jewish diaspora. The melody is based on a Hassidic Nigun. It was composed in 1918 to celebrate the Balfour Declaration and the British Victory over the Ottomans in 1917. The first performance was in a mixed choir concert in Jerusalem. Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, a professor at the 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, who with the rest of his class was presented by Idelsohn with a 19-century, slow, melodious, chant (niggun or nigun) and assigned to add rhythm and words to fashion a modern Hebrew song. There are competing claims on who is "Hava Nagila"s composer, with both Idelsohn and Nathanson being suggested. The niggun has been attributed to the Sadigurer Chasidim, who lived in what is Bucovina, Ukraine. This version has been recreated by Daniel Gil, based on a traditional song collected by Susman Kiselgof. The text was probably refined by Idelsohn. Members of the community began to immigrate to Jerusalem in 1915, and Idelsohn wrote in 1932 that he had been inspired by the melody. This version is by André Rieu. Oh! And thank you for 175 subs, means a lot to me, and yes, I am Jewish, I am a...