Tragic and hopeful, from 69 years ago today. The words to Hatikvah (The Hope) were written in 1886 by Naphtali Imber, an English poet originally from todays Ukraine. The melody was written by Samuel Cohen, an immigrant (to Palestine?) from Moldavia. Cohen recalled later that he had hummed Hatikvah based on the melody from the song he had heard in Romania, Carul cu boi (The Ox Driven Cart). Some proposals have been made to change the Israeli anthem in order to make it more acceptable to non-Jewish Israelis. --------------------------------- Lyrics in English: As long as the Jewish spirit is yearning deep in the heart, With eyes turned toward the East, looking toward Zion, Then our hope - the two-thousand-year-old hope - will not be lost: To be a free people in our land, The land of Zion and Jerusalem.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:33:43 +0000
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