It is played at least once a weekend at Calissa, a Greek restaurant in Water Mill, N.Y., that hosts big-name D.J.s and performers like Samantha Ronson and Wyclef Jean. She said she got the idea after hearing it at restaurants and beach clubs in Mykonos and Ibiza. “We did some research, and we traveled around the Mediterranean, and we heard these very chic clubs and restaurants play this song, and we loved it,” she said. “It’s a song that is about transformation and reinvention, so that is destined to keep happening,” he said. “It’s always had new lives.”The song was written in 1918 by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, a composer who believed the Jewish people needed new music at a time when Zionism and the push for a Jewish homeland were gaining strength.

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Persons: Samantha Ronson, Wyclef Jean, “, ”, Kylie Monagan, Alabina, ” James Loeffler, wasn’t, “ It’s, Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, Loeffler Organizations: University of Virginia Locations: Calissa, Water Mill, N.Y, Mykonos, Ibiza