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YMalel?” — in
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SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News

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zena Tzena," the first
song broadcast from Israel
during Independence Day
ceremonies on May 14,
1948, is being revitalized by folk
singers celebrating the group that
made the number an American hit
the next year.
The Weavers, a quartet that intro-
duced world music to audiences
across the country, is being remem-
bered through Weavermania, an act
to be featured Jan. 27 during this
year's Ann Arbor Folk Festival.
Although the original Weavers per-
formed uplifting songs — "Goodnight
Irene," "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine,"
"So, Long, It's Been Good to Know
You" — their careers were brought
down during the early 1950s, when
the politics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy
had many performers blacklisted
under suspicion of being Communists.

The original
all on the Chicago folk
Weavers came togeth-
scene — organized
er in 1949, when Pete
their tribute concerts
Seeger and Lee
years after seeing the
Hayes, who'd been in
film and mulling over
another group
the idea of re-creating
together, joined with
the Weavers' sound.
Jewish members
They studied the
Ronnie Gilbert and
records and the styles
Fred Hellerman,
of the original group
who'd originally met
to bring authenticity
The Weavers, clockwise from
at summer camp.
to
their performances.
bottom left: Pete Seeger, Fred
After disbanding
"We liked to cele-
Hellerman, Ronnie Gilbert
and working on indi- and Lee Hayes.
brate diverse cultures,"
vidual careers, the
says original Weaver
"We liked to celebrate diverse
quartet had one
Ronnie Gilbert, who is
cultures," says Ronnie Gilbert,
major reunion at
semi-retired
from the
one of two Jewish members
Carnegie Hall,
stage
and
fully
retired
of the original Weavers.
arranged by their for-
as a psychologist, a
mer manager, Harold
career she established
Leventhal, as well as a film made
after the McCarthy era. "Two of us
about them. The film, Wasn't That a
are Jewish, and it was especially
Mighty Time, was the starting point
appropriate [during concerts] around
for Weavermania.
the winter solstice to celebrate both
Barbara Barrow, Torn Dundee,
Christmas and Chanukah. Today we
Mark Dvorak and Michael Smith —
would need to add songs from many