Hatikvah

Album: The Stars Salute Israel at 30 (1886)
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  • 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 Lyrics from a song in Public Domain

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  • Polly from Pittsburgh, PaWell, not a racial philosophy, as Jews are not a race. A national philosophy. The Moldavian folktune was used by Bedrich Smetana in "Ma Vlast," his musical ode to his fatherland. It's part of "The Moldau" segment. And very lovely it is!
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