Come, Let Us Be Joyful!: The Story of Hava Nagila

One of the best known of Jewish melodies is the joyful Hava Nagila, the one played at weddings and festivals, at any gathering where a Jewish tune is needed by the secular world, at camps and schools everywhere. Here is a tale of how that melody was carried to the Holy Land by Jews returning from thousands of years of exile, and of how it came to have words.