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Shalom friends,
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If Israel's National Poet, Xayim Naxman Bialik
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have celebrated his 135th birthday. Although he reflected the feelings and the voices of the first Zionist generation, it is astonishing that his poetry is still so relevant to our existence in Israel today. Bialik's work is deeply embedded in the Israeli culture and the current Hebrew literary life.
Bialik's first published song "'El HaTsipor"
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, To the Bird) expresses his longing to |
Zion and his envy of the bird that comes from the "lands of warmth". He later wrote an epic poem about the Kishinev pogroms called "'Al HaShxita"
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, In the City of Slaughter) describing the slaughter of the Kishinev Jewish |
congregation by the anti-Semitic Russians. He condemned the passivity taken against anti-Semitic violence, and by writing so, influenced the founding of Jewish self-defense groups in Russia.
Bialik wrote love songs and children songs, lyric and epic poetry, stories and legends. He used the Hebrew language in a sophisticated yet simple manner, maximizing its potential to the extreme before the actual revival of the Hebrew language. He renewed the Hebrew language but also wrote in Yiddish (the language of Jews in Eastern Europe). He adored the works of European literary canons such as Heine, Shakespeare, and Cervantes and translated them to Hebrew.
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spectrum of the new Jewish Zionists: religion and tradition versus secularity, identification versus anguish about his people in Europe and Israel.
Bialik wrote a lot for children but he had no children of his own. One of these songs best
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down movement of the seesaw, just like Bialik's ambivalent feelings.
In this issue, we'll meet more of Bialik's songs and words.
Heyu Shalom!
Farewell!
Shira Cohen-Regev
The HebrewOnline Team
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| Hebrew Words Renewed/Invented by Bialik |
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Transliteration: yevu-yetsu
Translation: import-export
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Transliteration: xursha
Translation: grove, forest
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Transliteration: matslema
Translation: camera
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| Seesaw (Nadneda) |
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See, saw, see, saw
Up, down, down and up!
What’s up?
What's down? –
Only me,
Me and you,
Two of us balanced
on the scales
In between the earth
and the atmosphere.
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nad, ned, nad, ned
red, 'ale, 'ale vared!
ma lemala?
ma lemata? –
rak 'ani,
'ani va'ata,
shneynu shkulim
bamoznayim
beyn ha'arets
lashamayim.
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To listen to the song, click here.
You may also click here to read more of Bialik Hebrew songs translated into English.
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Xayim Naxman Bialik and his wife Mania built their house in Tel-Aviv. The city was so honored to have the National Poet there that the mayor, Meir Dizingof, decided to
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, rexov) after Bialik, when he moved there in 1926. The house was |
built in an eclectic style, combining influences from the East and the West and was surrounded by a beautiful garden.
After his death, the house was donated to the city of Tel-Aviv. Today, you may visit the house that serves as a Hebrew literature research institute as well as a museum. You may see there paintings and sculptures of the National Poet, his personal belongings, manuscripts of his songs, and many letters he received from children throughout the years.
The Mania Bialik house is attached to the Bialik House and is devoted to Hebrew women poets.
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| Weekly Hebrew Word Search |
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See if you can find all of the words in the puzzle below:
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Name:
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Chaim (Chayim)
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Gender:
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Male
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Time of Appearance:
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The Middle Ages Till The 19th Century
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Meaning:
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Life
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Nahman (Nachman)
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Male
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Time of Appearance:
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The Talmud Era
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Meaning:
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The name "nahman" is derived of the verb
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"comfort", "console")
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Shira
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Female
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Time of Appearance:
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The Modern Era
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Meaning:
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Poetry, singing
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