![]() before PLO ,the BDS and Noam Chomsky gained popularity. It was a time Israeli singers and Israel were embraced by the German and French audience. ,were very beloved in Germany and France. Many sang it in Yiddish and English ,Nehama Handel,an Israeli singer married to a German who lived in Germany, was very popular in west Europe in Germany and France in the 1960’s when Israeli singers like her,Esther Ofarim ,Mike Brant etc. There is old Jewish folk song called Dona Dona that I learned as a child in summer camp and it. Is a song written with the calf as a metaphor for the jews of Europe during the holocaust,written at the beginning of the Nazi rule of Europe. “Calves are easily bound and slaughtered never knowing the reason why but whoever wishes for freedom like the swallow has learned to fly” ![]() This song was made popular by Joan Baez, who sang it on her debut album in 1960. ![]() The text of a calf bound for market ,asking why it must be led for slaughter ,as it is told by the farmer that this is the destiny of calves while those like the swallow who have wings can fly. Some see this as a metaphor for Jews in the Holocaust. Original words in Yiddish has been made famous by Joan Baez as a song of human rights. ![]()
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