babe in estland
Silly me, I forgot to mention that I now have a column on Estonia at PopMatters. It’s called Babe in Estland and you can read the first column here: Falling In Love, Estonian-style. Enjoy!
22 February 2007
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“It is unfortunate that we Jews, among ourselves, do not value group singing. Among the Baltic peoples, especially the Estonians, their entire national movement sprang from group singing. This is a mighty and invaluable tool in order to develop cooperation and discipline and also that social aesthetic quality, which, when the day comes when Brit Trumpeldor will be that which it should be, the Jewish world will call (I hope) by the name Hadar Betari.”
- Ze’ev Jabotinsky
Comment by NG — 26 February 2007 @ 15:15
Dang, that’s amazing! What year was that?
Comment by rachel — 26 February 2007 @ 15:40
Reply from NG: “I wish I knew. It’s quoted without any proper citation in a bunch of old Betar songbooks that I have.”
Comment by rachel — 27 February 2007 @ 19:31