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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.
Jerusalem of Gold. " Jerusalem of Gold " (Hebrew: ירושלים של זהב, Yerushalayim Shel Zahav) is an Israeli song written by Naomi Shemer. Often contrasted with the official anthem Hatikva, the original song described the Jewish people's 2,000-year longing to return to Jerusalem.
e. " Am Yisrael Chai " [ a ] is a Jewish solidarity anthem and a widely used expression of Jewish peoplehood and an affirmation of the continuity of the Jewish people. The phrase gained popularity during the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, when Jewish songwriter Shlomo Carlebach composed the song for the movement's 1965 solidarity rally in ...
Naftali Herz Imber was born in Złoczów (now Zolochiv, Ukraine), a city in Galicia, which then was part of the Austrian Empire. [1] His parents were Joshua Heschel Schorr and Hodel Imber, who followed a strictly Orthodox lifestyle. [2] He began writing poetry at the age of 10 and several years later received an award from Emperor Franz Joseph ...
e. " 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 rabbi teaching his young students the aleph-bet. By the end of the 19th century it was one of the most popular ...
Composition. Vehi Sheamda is a short passage in the Haggadah of Passover Seder that deals with saving the people of Israel by God, from all His enemies. It is customary to read the passage in a melody, and today it is also prevalent as a piyut on its own. It follows the previous paragraph of the text regarding God's promise of ending the exile ...
Samuel (Shmuel) Cohen was born in a small town near Ungheni, Moldavia, then part of the Russian Empire. Motivated by a rising tide of Russian state-sponsored antisemitism and terrorism (pogroms), Cohen immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1887. He settled in Rishon LeZion ("First to Zion") as part of the Hovevei Zion ("Lovers of Zion") movement.
Chad Gadya. "Chad Gadya" ("One Kid" 'i.e., baby goat]) is an Aramaic song describing the consuming of each entity by the next, from a goat, through a cat, dog, a stick, fire, water, an ox, a butcher, and the angel of death, all the way up to God. Many think it metaphorically tells the history of the Jews from their beginning to the future ...