8. Rejoicing Niggun of Lubavich Hasidim/ Freylekhs

^{Habbad Youth Choir, conducted by Yosef Marton; dedication of Habbad Synagogue, Old City, Jerusalem, 2 January 1968. Recorded by Yizhak Weinberg.}

An example of vocal performance of an instrumental niggun. The niggun has been known in the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, under various names. It appears as: "Khosidl" in Kostakowsky's anthology (1916, p. 88, no. 8); "Mitsve tants mit der kale" in a 78 rpm commercial record performed by the klezmer Abe Schwartz and his orchestra (1917); and "Bukoviner freylekhs" in a record of Max Leibowitz and his band, probably from around the same time as Schwartz's recording. In 1939 the klezmer Dave Tarras recorded it, together with Al Glaser's Bucovina Kapelle, under the same name as Leibowitz. Beregovski (1987, p. 119, no. 88) calls it a freylekhs. The Lubavich Hasidim have taken it over as a rejoicing niggun. The version they sing (see Zalmanoff, vol. 3, no. 345; "Nichoach" records, Record 7, side 1, track 6) is slightly different from the instrumental version.