Tumbalalaika
Lyrics and Music Originated in Eastern Europe in the 1930s. Exact origin is hard to pinpoint.
Singers Cantor Benzion Miller(Canada), Cantor Alberto Mizrahi(USA), Cantor Naftali Herstik (Israel)

Tumbalalaika” is a riddle song seeped in ancient European tradition. The boy picks a girl to answer his riddle. "What can grow without rain? What can burn and never stop burning? What can weep and never shed a tear?" - the boy asks the girl. "Tumbalalaika" provides us with an opportunity for young people to explore the mysteries of life. This is while they get to know each other. I have spent hours and hours to pin point the origin. No luck. In the 1930s, Jewish boys, Jewish children in Volhynia, Hungary, or Romania were singing this song to their Libes ( English Sweet Heart).
The most distinguished cantors in the world ,Cantor Benzion Miller (Canada), Cantor Alberto Mizrahi (USA) and Cantor Naftali Herstik (Israel) performed this song at the Portuguese Synagogue of Amsterdam in 2003 during their tour of
“A Faith in Song”.
The most distinguished cantors in the world ,Cantor Benzion Miller (Canada), Cantor Alberto Mizrahi (USA) and Cantor Naftali Herstik (Israel) performed this song at the Portuguese Synagogue of Amsterdam in 2003 during their tour of
“A Faith in Song”.
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