The lyrics of Hatikva 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. This emotional poem was originally written in 1877-1878 by the Jewish poet Naftali Herz Imber from what is now Ukraine.
When the State of Israel was established in 1948, “Hatikva” became the national anthem but only unofficially. It did not become the official national anthem until 2004, when the Knesset passed a law making it the national anthem of Israel. In its modern rendering, the official text of the anthem incorporates only the first stanza. The predominant theme in the remaining stanzas is the establishment of a sovereign and free nation in the Land of Israel, a hope largely seen as fulfilled with the founding of the State of Israel. (The melody for “Hatikva” is based from “La Mantovana”, a 16th-century Italian song, composed by Giuseppe Cenci in ca. 1600 with the text “Fuggi, fuggi, fuggi da questo cielo”.)
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0:00 Shalom
0:06 Introduction to "Hatikva"
01:01 Reading instructions
1:49 Fluent reading
2:21 English translation
2:43 Syllable-by-syllable teaching
5:50 "Hatikva" Song
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26 июл 2024
