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Lot #    20971
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 11:24:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Zemirot he-Halutz
Title (Hebrew)    זמירות
Author    He-Halutz
City    Berlin
Publisher    (Fuerst)
Publication Date    193?
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    15, [1] pp. octavo 155:115 mm. light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    Arrangement of twenty songs to be sung on various occasions. At the end s a listing of the songs grouped into four groups, le-Zion, Shirat ha-Avodah, al ha-Mishmar, ba-Moledet, the songs reflecting the Zionist outlook He-Halutz. That organization was an umbrella group for various Zionist youth movements throughout Europe and the United States. Beginning in the 1880s in Eastern Europe, various groups of young Jews began to prepare themselves for eventual resettlement in Palestine to create a Jewish community. They stressed manual labor, agricultural proficiency, self-defense, and the speaking of modern Hebrew; they called themselves halutzim (pioneers). Branches differed over political issues, but all encouraged physical fitness and horticultural studies. Nurtured by Yosef Trumpeldor and Menahem Ussishkin, ha-Halutz became the organizational framework for preparing young men and women for pioneering work in Palestine, particularly on the land. The organization's many branches also emphasized the role of Jewish youth in transforming and secularizing Jewish society. The movement reached its high point in 1935 with some 90,000 members, but the Holocaust virtually annihilated it. During World War II the group assisted in the illegal settlement of Jews in Palestine. More traditionally, Zemirot, in Ashkenazi usage, are the table hymns sung during or directly after Sabbath meals. Their recitation was considered meritorious (מצוה) by the early authorities (cf. Sefer ha-Ḥasidim, ed. Wistinetzki, 722; Or Zaru'a, 2:95). Three groupings achieved prominence and were printed in most prayer books: They are: (a) eight zemirot for the Friday evening meal (Kol Mekaddesh Shevi'i, Menuḥah ve-Simḥah, Mah Yedidut, Mah Yafit, Yom Shabbat Kodesh, Yah Ribbon Olam , Ẓur mi-Shello Akhalnu, Yom Zeh le-Yisrael); the first five apparently date from the early Middle Ages, the last two from the 16th century; (b) eight for the Sabbath noon meal (Barukh Adonai Yom Yom, Barukh El Elyon, Yom Zeh Mekhubbad, Yom Shabbaton, Ki Eshmerah Shabbat, Shimru Shabbetotai, Deror Yikra, Shabbat ha-Yom la-Adonai); 10th to 15th centuries; (c) nine for the end of Sabbath (Ha-Mavdil , Eliyahu ha-Navi, Be-Moẓa'ei (Yom) Menuḥah, Ḥaddesh Sesoni, Agil ve-Esmaḥ, Elohim Yisadenu, Eli Ḥish Go'ali, Addir Ayom ve-Nora, Ish Ḥasid Hayah); early to late Middle Ages. A number of these are to be found in Maḥzor Vitry (11th century) and some were also accepted by Sephardi communities who had their own traditional table hymns. The kabbalists, especially R. Isaac Luria, added new zemirot.
          
Paragraph 2    שער-מעטפת. שירי-ציון.
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; http://www.answers.com/topic/ha-halutz; CD-EPI 0138123
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Poetry
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica