Re: [Cz-L] Israelis helping Romania

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

> Regarding your letter preceding the article:
>
> 1. Anybody who lived in Romania knows that the hora is a Romanian dance. One
> of the first songs we were taught in school was "Hora Unirii", the Hora of
> the Union [of the Romanian Principalities].
>
> 2. The statement in the article that " due to shifting borders, 200,000
> Romanian Jews were living in Soviet territory when Hitler's forces invaded,
> and many died" is correct. The USSR occupied on June 28, 1940 the Northern
> Bucovina and Bessarabia where at least 200,000 Jews lived at that time and
> many were killed by Germans and Romanians after the war started on June 22,
> 1941.
>
> Fred Schneider
>
So much was this song drilled into us, that 60 years after I learned it,
and despite probable spelling mistakes, I still remember it.
Never the less, the origin of the dance is Greek.

 
Hai S'a dem mana cu mana, cei cu inima Romana,
S'a invirtim hora fratiei pe pamintul Romaniei.
Unde ei unu nu ie putere la nevoie si la durere
Unde iei doie puterea creste si dusmanul nu reuceste

Mimi
Received on 2006-10-08 09:54:03