Israel’s Independence Day

Der yontef fun umophengikayt

• Sing “Vos mir zaynen,” (What we are) an old Zionist song   וואָס מיר זײַנען

Stonecutters kibbutz (Poland 1930s)

Zionist farmers (Poland 1930s)

• Learn vocabulary related to Israel   ישׂראל  (intermediate)

• Israel words  for teachers

• “Yerushalayim“ (Jerusalem), a poem by the great Yiddish writer Kadya Molodovsky.  You can hear the author read her poem on the CD Golden Peacock: Voice of the Yiddish Writer (ed. Sheva Zucker).                            ירושלים – קאַדיע מאָלאָדאָווסקי  (advanced)

• Sing “Shnirele Perele“ (Little string, little pearl), a folk song about the coming of the Messiah and the return of all Jews to the Land of Israel.     שנירעלע פּערעלע     Famously performed by the Klezmatics