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76. Herzl the Great
… movement. The tune is said to have been borrowed from an unidentified Hindi film that was popular in Kerala at …
75. It Is Dawning
… (x2) Chains are breaking; chains are falling, falling from our legs. (x2) The text of this song is found in notebook S-12, written down by Rivka Yehoshua from Parur, who sang it for Marcia Walerstein-Sibony in 1981 … in Galia’s performance. The song carries strong influences from Malayalam songs of the “freedom struggle” for Indian …
74. The Fifth of Iyar
… arrived! 3. Never will this happy day Be erased from our minds. A Jew who fails to celebrate— Can he really … May they be forever blessed. (x2) [Chorus] Each year from 1948 until their mass departure for Israel in 1954, … Vadakamuttu, to be performed by herself and other girls from the town for the annual celebration in nearby …
73. Singing, Singing [Zionist version]
… text of this Zionist song appears in three notebooks, all from Parur. Ruby Daniel from Kochi may have been mistaken in attributing it to the … for his authorship was not mentioned by any of the singers from Parur. The lively melody and the first stanza are taken …
72. The Hope in the Jewish Heart
… unity among all the Jews. The melody of this song is taken from the third tune in song 20 , “The Command Proclaimed,” …
71. Our Ancient Hope
… the first stanza of his song. Whereas Imber had written, from a European perspective, of the Jewish soul turning “to … after the sixth. Despite being found only in notebooks from the three Jewish communities in Kochi, its popularity … and early 1980s in several moshavim, performed by singers from places other than Kochi. In 2013, it was videorecorded …
Eliezer Goldberg, alias Leyzerke Kremenitser
… in the same profession. In an attempt to prevent this from happening, he arranged his marriage at the age of … gestures, harmonic language and formal structures derived from these cultures. He is believed to have composed … 1943), a cantor at Isaac’s Synagogue in Kraków and, from 1933, at Antwerp’s Machsikei HaDas Synagogue, who …
70. Our Country
… for Palestine; to the British Balfour Declaration of 1917, promising the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine; … the 1950s. The text is found in just four notebooks, one from Kadavumbhagam-Kochi and three from Parur. In 1995, Rivka Yehoshua from Parur sang it for me …
69. So It Is Proclaimed and Declared!
… recording was made in 1981 in Israel by Rivka Yehoshua from Parur, who remembered it as a composition by Shlomo … song 75, “It Is Dawning,” which borrows some of the lyrics from this poem. [3] For a contemporary performance of this …
68. Creator Who Gave Discernment
… burning in hell.” This song is found mostly in notebooks from Kadavumbhagam-Kochi, and two of those notebooks include … the sequence of songs, right after the invocational “Lord from the Beginning” ( song 61 ) and followed immediately by …