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Worker’s Song
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 Written down while working in the fields, patterned after the Arabic working song and sung to that tune.O I have my life and my labor!Yah ḥai li, li-hah-‘amali!Awaken, my brothers, there’s no time…

Contributor:

Bar-Nash (Noah Shapiro)

Places:

Zikhron Ya'akov, Ottoman Palestine (Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel)

Date:

1895

Subjects:

Labor, Class, Jewish identity, Economic life

Categories:

Performing Arts, Music, Popular Poetry
Sprinkler Hora
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A gush of joy in the pipe, The pipes, the arteries of the Negev, This is the course of the song, From the faucet to the clod The water of the depths ascends. A pump means bread! Negev, Negev, what’s…

Contributor:

Yehiel Mohar

Places:

Date:

1954

Subjects:

Life cycle, Modernity, Economic life, Israel/Israelis

Categories:

Poetry, Literature, Popular Poetry, Music