את ואני והמלחמה הבאה

"Hanoch Levin, a son of Holocaust survivors from Poland, erupted into the consciousness of Israeli theatre at the end of the 1960s with his satirical review, You, Me and the Next War, directed by Edna Shavit. It was staged in the basement of Bar-Barim Club (then a jazz club), crammed between garages and metal workshops in Hamasger Street in south Tel Aviv. It was a summer’s evening and a group of us sat on straw stools looking openmouthed the small stage with its four chairs, five actors, and composer Alex Kagan at the piano. Three spots lit the stage and a simple electric fan stood next to it in an effort to alleviate the heat and humidity." - All about Jewish Theatre

Legato ai settori più radicalmente pacifisti e al partito comunista israeliano, Hanoch Levin (1943-1999), nato in Polonia e sopravvissuto allo sterminio nazista, fu un cabarettista e musicista che ha segnato realmente il '68 israeliano. E questa canzone è, infatti, del 1968. Fa parte dello spettacolo omonimo, che Levin e il compositore/pianista Alex Kagan portavano in giro per tutto il paese esibendosi, spesso, in luoghi di fortuna e portandosi dietro dei ventilatori elettrici per alleviare il caldo degli spettatori improvvisati. [RV]