[etni] Knocking on Jacob's Ladder
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Knocking on Jacob's Ladder
Haaretz - April 29, 2005
Over the years, the couple behind the `Anglo Mimouna' folk music
festival have changed their tune
It took Menachem Vinegrad a few years of living in Israel before he
realized he was never going to be like a "true Israeli."
"The first few years here we were busy becoming established as
kibbutznikim, having children and trying to be Israeli," says Vinegrad,
who moved in 1967 with his wife Yehudit from the northern English city
of Leeds to Kibbutz Machanayim in the Upper Galilee. "Then there was a
kind of realization that you are who you are, that you're definitely
not like those who are already here and you're never going to be, so
why should you want to be?"
And one of the things that Vinegrad and his fellow kibbutz members from
the U.K. missed was the folk and protest music that had been an
integral part of their lives as teenagers. In the Zionist socialist
youth movements, they had sung the songs of Bob Dylan and Pete Seegar,
as well as Hebrew folk classics. Being go-getter types - "we always
knew that if you wanted something done you should do it yourself" -
Vinegrad and his friends set up a monthly folk club called Jacob's
Ladder, which quickly evolved into an annual music festival for a few
hundred folk enthusiasts.
The weekend event obviously hit a note with more than a few Anglos
across the country - and has continued to do so. Last summer some 3,000
revelers, the majority of them native English-speakers, attended the
festival at Nof Ginosar on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Next
month, on May 20-21, the 29th Jacob's Ladder Folk Festival is set to be
the biggest yet, with two outdoor stages and three indoor performance
areas presenting folk, bluegrass, Irish, blues, country and world
music.
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