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What listeners carry forward
626 public comments across 35 songs, curated from more than 1,900 comments on the RIGLI channel as of July 2026, with Russian originals and English translations.
124 voices
Hava Nagila
Listeners who had known the melody for decades encountered Olga Anikina's Russian poetic adaptation and answered with family memories, questions and joy.
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Tumbalalaika
A Yiddish riddle song became newly legible to listeners who remembered its melody from childhood but had never understood its questions.
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Hatikvah
Hearing Israel's anthem in Russian turned a familiar symbol into words listeners could understand, question and feel personally.
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A Handful of Happiness
A tender song about how little it can take to feel fortunate brought listeners back to parents, grandparents and quiet family rooms.
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Chiribim Chiribom
The familiar Yiddish refrain invited listeners with many backgrounds into the rhythm first, then into the language and memory behind it.
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By the Fireplace
This Yiddish-rooted song of home drew out memories of grandparents, childhood rooms and words once heard but not understood.
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Odin Yo
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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Dire Gelt
Wit and heart in equal measure: the humor of a people who could laugh through anything.
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Let My People Go
A song of endurance and forward motion, and of a people who keep creating no matter what.
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Wait, Locomotive
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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If I Were a Tailor
A playful classic that children learn by heart. Parents write to say their toddlers sing the chorus before they can talk.
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Bublichki
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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7-40
The dance that fills any room. Impossible to sit still: and now impossible to sing without knowing why.
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The Organ Grinder
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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Hold On
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Rebbe Elimelech
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By the Road
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Yes My Darling Daughter
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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The Tram Went By
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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Chubchik
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Linden Tree
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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On the Hills of Manchuria
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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Jewish Songs
Three comments speak to the collection as a whole: its melodies, Elechka's voice and Olga Anikina's poetic sensitivity.
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Children on the Train
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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Yisrolik
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Hanukkah
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Avremil
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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Freedom Tango
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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Summer Day
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Dreidel
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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The Institute Girl
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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In the Half-light
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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Rabbeinu Tam
One more song carried to a wider world: and the listeners who found themselves in it.
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Spring in the Ghetto
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Summer Evening
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Hava Nagila
This song has lived with me ever since I heard it performed by Dean Reed (I was 10-12 years old). Recently I started learning Hebrew with Boris Kipnis - it's the best thing on the internet. And I'm also acquainted with the wonderful Vera Alekseyevna Migunova; this year she'll turn 92.
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Hava Nagila
In 1941-45, while in a concentration camp on German territory (as an 8-year-old child), a German teacher, in two weeks, without pencil or paper, taught little Vera phrases in German. This saved her, and not only her, from starvation: she managed to slip out under the barbed wire beyond the camp grounds and come back with bread. Two weeks later, the teacher was gone: she was Jewish. What a pity that her name is unknown.Hear the song
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Hatikvah
Thank you very much! For the first time I heard the Anthem of Israel in Russian. I loved it. A voice of astonishing purity. It soothes the soul. I've subscribed to your channel. Now I'll listen more often. Health to you and creative success.Hear the song
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A Handful of Happiness
A few days ago I accidentally heard one of the songs and now I listen every day. A stunning performance, voice, phrasing. I'm very surprised that a singer of this caliber has relatively so few plays - there should be hundreds of thousands, at the very leastHear the song
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Tumbalalaika
Good, I as an old Jew liked it.Hear the song
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Chiribim Chiribom
I listened to this song performed by the Barry Sisters, without knowing the language. I subscribed after listening beforehand to "Hava Nagila" and "A Handful of Happiness." Thank you!Hear the song
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Let My People Go
I listened wholeheartedly to nearly all the compositions – folks, you're wonderful, it's YOU who preserve the musical culture of the Jewish people!! May God grant you health, luck, and that nothing bad ever happens to you anywhere, be happy, may God keep you!!!Hear the song
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By the Fireplace
It reminded me of myself by the stove, with my grandpa... and the ABC book... I shed a few tears ((Hear the song
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Dire Gelt
Thank you, simple songs in their performance, but you listen and understand the meaning, the song has a soul. And modern songs are, excuse me, just "verbal diarrhea." That's my opinion and I don't impose it on anyone. And to the performer – RAHMET (thank you).Hear the song
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Wait, Locomotive
The best performance of this hit that I've heard.Hear the song
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Children on the Train
A very sad song. Children traveled just like this during the famine in the Volga region – my grandmother's little brothers, two and four years old, taken to an orphanage as complete orphans, and my grandfather's brother and sister! My grandmother's brothers went missing without a trace, she searched for them for several years, in vain! My grandfather's brother and sister died on the road...
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Children on the Train
And how many little children perished in the children's death camps... Cursed be fascism, Nazism, and all the misanthropic "isms" that kill children, that brand them as sons and daughters of enemies of the people!!!Hear the song
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Odin Yo
A magical voice! I could listen and listen... Thank you!!!Hear the song
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7-40
Yes, I too grew up in a time when it made no difference what race anyone was.Hear the song