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Written down while working in the fields, patterned after the Arabic working song and sung to that tune.
O I have my life and my labor!
Yah ḥai li, li-hah-‘amali!
Awaken, my brothers, there’s no…
Contributor:
Bar-Nash (Noah Shapiro)
Places:
Zikhron Ya'akov, Ottoman Palestine
(Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel)
Date:
1895
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This day is our war, my sister,
So I am far away from here.
Please keep our rendez-vous
In our tiny kitchen
Before my usual chair
Fill a glass of wine
And treat it as if I am
Sitting across from…
Contributor:
Rafael Klatchkin
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Date:
1948
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Among the dreamy pines
As evening light is slowly dying
And a lonely bell still chimes
So many songs, so many stories
The stony hills recall . . .
Around her heart my city carries
A lonely ancient…
Contributor:
Naomi Shemer
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1967