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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… did not compose it spontaneously. Nor did it become the national anthem of the State of Israel until very recently. … its way to consecration by a state that adopted it as its national anthem on a journey involving grass roots energy … religious circles. In the 1930s there was a propensity by socialist Zionists to replace it with Haim N. Bialik’s …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… me their resources and knowledge: Dr. Gila Flam from the National Library of Israel; Dr. Alex Hartov from the … University. David Edelstadt (1866–1892), one of the radical socialist Yiddish poets who settled in the USA in 1881, … Belarsky’s LP Link to recording: https://soundcloud.com/nationallibrary-of-israel/sets/seder-nights-with-sidor (see …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… right. It was through his close connection to the poet and socialist Greenblatt that Guthrie became more acquainted … a connection between this survey of history, a sense of national and cultural pride, and the modern holiday. A hint … the most well-known song from the album. It gained a wide national audience in the USA after it was performed on Conan …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… activist in the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement, a religious socialist party within the Zionist movement. A thorough … author of Haskalah books that served as a bridge to the new national-Zionist period. (Geshuri, 1970, part 1, 1) Geshuri … activist he moved into public life, in Jerusalem and on the national stage. Geshuri became a member of the Jerusalem …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… musical history, concerns about a Jewish musician’s national authenticity, dreams about a city never seen, or my … dissolution of its musical material into the two distinct (national) categories of “Arab” and “Jewish”. It is to a … Beirut, Baghdad and New York to record for the leading international and local record companies of the day (Salihi & Sa …
Mordekhai Zeira
… His songs have survived the test of time and have become national cultural assets. They are folksongs of the same … ''Adayim' (jewelry), and the song became the anthem of the socialist youth movements (with a slight change for the Boy …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… as a lived experience that entails a flux of religious, national, and cultural configurations. But inasmuch as this … artist. Justifiably or not, Unger did not gain international fame during his lifetime. Shortly after his career … and Jewish-Canadian culture by placing it in an international arena in which he is casted as the Canadian …