Re: ATTENTION - The German thing...

[Jacob Freedman <freedman...>]

Incident 2:

A documentary about a Polish Christian who was trying to repair Jewish
cemetaries which had been trashed during and after the Holocaust showed
a Polish Polka band at the local Oktoberfest playing an oom pa pa
version of Hava Nagila,  which the locals believed to be a polish folk
tune.

I believe the music for Hava Nagila is based on a fairly common,
Eastern European folk melody.

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