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Hatikvah (Hebrew: הַתִּקְוָה, romanized: hattiqvā, ; lit. ' The Hope ') is the national anthem of the State of Israel.Part of 19th-century Jewish poetry, the theme of the Romantic composition reflects the 2,000-year-old desire of the Jewish people to return to the Land of Israel in order to reclaim it as a free and sovereign nation-state.
Hatikvah was sung even outside the gas chambers. [6] The British military made the most famous recording of the Hatikvah, when it was sung by survivors of the Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp. [ 7 ] The Holocaust survivors onboard the famed American rescue ship, the SS Exodus , sang the Hatikvah as it pulled into the port of Haifa . [ 8 ]
The band's debut album, "Hatikvah 6", was released by Hatav Hashmini in August 2007, with the exception of "If I Meet God." The album also featured the songs "White Night" and "Gaydamak", written by Arkady Gaydamak . In 2008 , the band recorded a cover version of Arik Lavie 's song "I Will Sing You a Song" for the " Hebrew Work 2 " project. In ...
In the songbook Songs of My People (circa 1938), compiled in Chicago, the song "Am Yisrael Chai" appears. [7] On April 20, 1945, five days after the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated, British Army chaplain Leslie Hardman led a Friday evening Shabbat service for a few hundred survivors at the camp.
The English version of the song is well associated with the festival of Hanukkah, and is known by many Jews and non-Jews alike. The lyrics of the song are simple and about making a dreidel and playing with it. The lyrics are as follows: I have a little dreidel I made it out of clay, And when it's dry and ready O dreidel I shall play.
"Jerusalem of Gold" (Hebrew: ירושלים של זהב, Yerushalayim Shel Zahav) is an Israeli song written by Naomi Shemer.Often contrasted to Israel's national anthem, Hatikva, the original song expressed the deep longing of many Jews to return to Jerusalem's Old City and eastern areas.
The English-language song "Israelism", released by the Swedish group Army of Lovers in 1993, incorporates music and words from "Hevenu shalom aleichem". In 2008 "Hevenu shalom aleichem" was included in a concert given for Pope Benedict XVI at the Park East Synagogue in New York City during his first visit to the United States. [ 24 ]
Oyfn Pripetshik" (Yiddish: אויפן פריפעטשיק, also spelled "Oyfn Pripetchik", "Oyfn Pripetchek", etc.; [note 1] English: "On the Hearth") [1] is a Yiddish song by M.M. Warshawsky (1848–1907). The song is about a melamed teaching his young students the Hebrew alphabet.