This is a video of a woman that I met while visiting the last remaining synagogue in a once booming Jewish village Berdichev, near Zhitomyr Ukraine. She saw a group of foreigners visiting and invited us to hear her sing the HaTikva, Jerusalem Shel Zahav, and finally this old Russian folk tune which she told us she used to sing to the soldiers going to war in World War II, prior to evacuating to Northern Kazakhstan. She was an opera singer in her professional life, and it shows!

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