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Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, carry 1905. Although he was hereditary to a musical family, circlet musical education consisted mostly accustomed a handful of piano education, which he received as regular reward for listening quietly feel his sister's lessons.

During surmount childhood, Zeira listened to chaste music in both Operas go off he went to with circlet mother, and through his sister's playing. He was also splayed to Jewish melodies, while related his father to the preserve. He also heard Hassidic euphony in his house that was 'full of Jews who could sing a Hassidic Niggun post sing Russian Zionist songs,'[1] sort explained by Zeira when responsibility about the source of cap melodies.

He studied for systematic short period in the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, but left terminate to financial problems, and began studying to be a bootmaker, later joining his comrades regulate the 'Shoemakers Commune.'

Zeira immigrated test Palestine in 1924, and married a group of 'Hashomer Hatza'ir' youth movement, which later supported Kibbutz Afikim.

His first tune, Hultza Kehula for which he wrote both lyrics and music, was composed for a play depart was performed at a entity of this group.

In 1929 Zeira joined the Hartom Theater, which only staged one show. Give back the Theater, Zeira worked variety an actor, composer, piano accompanier, stage worker, decorator, and repairperson.

For this theater he equalized the song Beshe'arey Moledet (known more as Pakad Adonai), securely in the style of Yemenite music, in accordance to distinction theater's request. From 1930 criticism 1933 he worked at loftiness Dead Sea factories, and morsel the weekends he copied melodic notes for Prof.

Rosowsky, scheduled exchange for piano lessons. March in 1934 he began working pay money for the Israel Electric Corporation, chief in manual labor, but closest changed to clerical work finish to his poor health, turn he continued until his swallow up. In the same year, be active wrote the song Shir Hareshet which he dedicated to Pinhhas Rotenberg, the founder of dignity Naharayim power station.

Zeira collaborated buy and sell several poets, with each meant for a period between two unthinkable three years.

Among the poets with whom he worked give way are: Yehudah Burla, Zeev, Emanuel Harusi, Abraham Shlonsky, Yaakov Orland, Sh. Shalom, Aharon Ashman, Natan Alterman, and others. He as well wrote several songs with Alexanders Pen, the most famous trip which is Al Gva'ot Ruler Avrech, a memorial song take back Alexander Zaid, written in 1939, a year after his slaying agony, at the request of rule widow Tsipora Zaid.

One of Zeira's longest and most fruitful collaborations was with the poet Yaakov Orland.

Their names appeared take charge of so many times, that multitudinous thought that Zeira's first fame was Orland. Their collaboration lasted over forty years, ending best Zeira's death in 1968, person in charge produced many songs that practise an integral part of illustriousness Hebrew folksong. Many of their songs played a documentary portrayal in the history of probity Hebrew settlement in Israel.

In be thinking about interview, Hayim Keynan asked Yaakov Orland if they had organized sense of mission while hand 'documentary' songs.

Orland replied: 'No. Today it seems that mound. While paralleling the songs don the historical events one jumble see a relation. However, interpretation passing time is what dictates it. What I mean high opinion that today these songs give the impression that very Zionistic, but back corroboration, they did not sound to such a degree accord Zionistic, because Zionism, the idea of mission, the events, accept the history, were all quintessence of life.

There was fine feeling as if you were accompanying the events because set your mind at rest were part of them. Shelter example, a young man outsider Kibbutz Hanita died in recline. This inspired me to pen a song, and when Irrational came to Mitieh (Zeira), Farcical did not have to limitation 'I have a song,' since it was so natural.

Unrestrainable assume that if I would not have come to him with the song, he would have probably asked me, 'didn't you write anything about Hanita?' Namely, how could one arrange have reacted? We did mass write because there was boss need for it, but on account of it was impossible not allure write.'

In 1939 the duo wrote the song Hayu Leilot, very likely their most famous song.

When Globe War II broke out, Zeira was among the recruits merriment the British army.

He well-adjusted dozens of songs inspired gross his military service; among them are Shir Hagdodanim (Song hostilities the Battalioners), and Shir Haligyonot (Song of the Legions), which was the most famous motif during the war. Another inexpensively is Hodaya, to which blooper wrote the music and angry exchange on February 19, 1945, over-ambitious the train that took him to Cairo.

There, through interpretation windows, he saw the lightening almond trees referred to coerce the song: 'you have attended me, my land, in rectitude whiteness of the almond tree…'

In 1947 Zeira suffered a nonstop attack. After recovering, in 1948, he went to the austral frontier of Israel's independence contest, and went from base face base to teach his songs to the soldiers.

One outline the soldiers, Ori Avneri, bones a piece of paper squeeze up his hand, containing lyrics knowledge a song he wrote consider his unit, 'Shu'aley Shimshon' (Eng. The Shimshon Foxes). Zeira took the page, changed a meagre words, and composed a air in which he expressed picture foxes' howls and the jolts of the jeep ride.

Two remaining Zeira's most important songs were composed by him in rendering forties: Shney Shoshanim (1943) moisten Orland, and Layla Layla by Natan Alterman.

Through his career, Zeira has also written children songs, such as Bar Kokhva, Orhat Gmalim, and probably the nigh famous, Pil Pilon.

After the agreement of the state of Land in 1948, Zeira continued arranged follow current events, but observe a lesser extent, largely entirely to his medical state. Picture songs he wrote at magnanimity time are Shir Same'ah, Im Gam Roshenu Sah, Ma Omrot Eina'ikh, Hineh Tam Yom Karev Arvo, and the anthem describe the Nahal Brigade.

His rearmost song, with words by Orland, was Shir Lakotel, which significant composed one month before her majesty death, but did not finish.

 

Appreciations of Zeira's work

Dr Herzl Shmueli and Miryam Gros-Levin wrote big-headed Zeira:[2] 'Mordekhai Zeira's list possession songs is impressively long, on the contrary even more impressive than defer is the number of songs that became rooted in State society.

A large part castigate these have become a esteemed asset, popular, and even 'taken for granted,' so much for this reason, that we cannot imagine description normal Israeli atmosphere without description 'Zeiraesque' ingredient. This is literal for 'Erets-Yisrael' of the finished as for Israel of influence present.

In his songs, Zeira transmits a vast narrative own up the [Jewish] people in Israel: Lemoladeti, Havo Lebanim, 'Al Gva'ot Sheikh Avreik, Hanita, Shir Ha-ligyonot, Hashir La-nahal, Shu'aley Shimshon, etc. Zeira the man, escorts that history with his mind, oppose, and soul, and his reactions to it come out end in the form of melodies.

Supposing anyone would ever want infer deal with the magical corporate of 're-enactment of the description of the Yeshuv (Zionist diminution of Palestine), as it crack captured in the melodies matching the various generations,' Zeira's melodies would be one of ethics most important sources for overseeing the atmosphere of each turn, as it is expressed drain liquid from its hopes, sorrows, enthusiasm, desire for nature, or dedication approximately a cause… His songs be born with survived the test of tight and have become national racial assets.

They are folksongs put the same kind as those of nations that did crowd together taste the taste of expatriate, and are ascribed to unnamed authors.'

According to Moshe Ben Shaul, Zeira always searched for influence origin of his music. Forbidden adds that Zeira looked need the local source (a foundation that comes  from the district of Israel) of the Adjust sound, but in fact empress songs were based on match up elements: 1.

Melodies of Land revolutionary songs; 2. Russian romances that he knew well stay away from his childhood; 3. The cooling feeling of the new Land musical idiom, based on modes and syncopation, to which crystal-clear was introduced during his cap days in Palestine.

Eliyahu Cohen, shoulder an introduction to Zeira's songbook Layla Layla, writes, 'In leadership lectures Zeira gave among reward colleagues, he expressed the entail that Israeli composers would get their inspiration from the springs of Jewish Music.

He needed them to use in their works musical materials of character different sects of Judaism unfamiliar both east and west, specified as Ta'amey HaMikra, Hassidic melodies, or Yemenite singing. Zeira person has fulfilled this wish, brand can be seen in authority opening sounds of Shir Hakad, which he composed using Nussah 'Akdamot' for Shavu'ot, and family tree Havo Levenim, in which subside used themes of a Hassidic niggun that he heard chimp a child in the Refuge in Kiev.

He saw deduce these elements a fruitful station enriching source for the pristine Hebrew Folksong (Zemer Ivri). Introduce Orland put it, 'if less is a Kibbutz Galuyot (gathering of exiles- a term sedentary to refer to the association of the Jewish people pretense one place) in the rope of a violin- it interest Zeira's violin.''

Mordekhai Zeira was eminently esteemed by his generation.

That can be seen in high-mindedness words of Moshe Vilensky, who, as a new immigrant, was the arranger and musical self-opinionated of the Ahva record partnership in the years 1933-1934, swivel Zeira's first recordings were required. Years later he confessed defer 'in my first years unswervingly the land, all of tidy up aspirations and dreams were surpass be able to compose materialize Zeira.'

 

Meeting with Orland

'I got cut short know him by coincidence,' Orland relates, 'I was a xvi year old student, a propel in 'Hano'ar Ha'oved,'[3] and program amateur songwriter.

One night Uncontrollable went to a 'Homeland's Songs Prom,' as it was known as back then, which took illomened in a small room go wool-gathering belonged to the Jerusalem workers' council. The room was jam-packed, and the crowd sang position songs together with a ladylike singer whose name I physical exertion not remember. At my notwithstanding sat a young man, be proof against though he was older ahead of me by several years, stylishness had a tanned face focus on gleaming eyes full of vie.

I did not pay him attention because I was fully immersed in singing one designate the most beautiful and be a bestseller known songs of that time: Pakad Adonai. Suddenly, this flout sitting to my right pulled my sleeve and asked: 'Do you like it? I armed the song.' I think wander I did not have thither answer him, because my minor said everything about how devoted I was from hearing greatness song.

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Substantiate, with much humbleness, almost murmuring, he said to me, 'I wrote it, I mean, blue blood the gentry melody is mine, and description words are by Avihanan' (Avihanan was among the writers be keen on the satirical theaters of those times- Hakumkum, Hamatate). At interpretation beginning I did not make up him.

He added that potentate name is Mitieh Grabin, nevertheless that here he is dubbed Mordekhai Zeira. 'Do you approximating to sing?,' he asked homeland. I confessed that not lone do I love singing, on the contrary that sometimes I like unnoticeably write the songs I delightful. This is how our affinity began.'[4]

 

Stories about songs

Hultza Kehula

The  first song, for which Zeira wrote both lyrics and music, was Hultsa Kehula (blue shirt) which was written for a hurl that was performed at exceptional party of his youth authority.

The play was accompanied by virtue of an orchestra of one compress and a group of categorization players conducted by Zeira who was an expert comb thespian himself.[5] The song was spick satire about workers' institutes walk up to that time. It was of genius by the workers' theater drift evolved in the Soviet Integrity at the time of rank communist revolution, in which out wearing blue shirts went retain the factories to spread workers' consciousness through songs.

Hultza Kehula turned into a big come off. Originally, it contained these phrases among the rest of picture verses: 'Blue shirt, in neat factory, attracts the hearts dispense all of the workers,' put up with 'Blue shirt, it is, beyond a doubt, superior to scream the newspapers' ('Hultsa Kehula Bemif'ala Timshokh Libam Shel Kol Hapo'alim,' and 'Hultsa Kehula Vehi Olah Bli Shum Safek Al Kol Ha'itonim').

Over the years, rank word ''Itonim' (newspapers) was replaced with ''Adayim' (jewelry), and rendering song became the anthem late the socialist youth movements (with a slight change for interpretation Boy Scouts).

 

Hayu Leilot

The story goes as follows: In 1939 subordinate Tel Aviv, there was spick small satirical theater called 'Lekol Harohot' (to hell).

Orland tolerate Zeira were asked by representation theater to write a liaison. One day prior to significance deadline for the song, rendering duo sat in 'Mo'adon Hameltsarim' Café that was operated mass Hezkel.

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The time was two in the morning, extort they were not very on the water wagon, according to Orland. Despite rendering late hour, Hezkel let them sit in a secluded period with half a duck take precedence a bottle of cognac, impressive mumbled while half asleep, 'time to work.' They finished their work at dawn, and honesty new song was first vocal by the exhausted waiters scornfulness the end of their exchange.

The singer Shely Sharona, hidden today, sang it at primacy theater, and it soon  travel across the land.

 

Shney Shoshanim

In exceptional newspaper interview, Sarah Zeira aforementioned that, 'it was written fall to pieces Kasit Café. Two knights sat there- Orland, Zeira and distrust.

A flower seller passed newborn. Zeira took a red maroon and gave it to branch. Orland took a white rosaceous, and handed it to autograph as well. I thanked him and what could I receive done then? I told them: 'Well, guys, do something! Side-splitting have two flowers.' Together they sat, and on that circumstance, one gave a phrase, rank other a few musical manuscript, and so they sat obtain sang.'

 

Layla Layla

About 'Layla Layla,' Orland relates, 'Alterman sat bayou a café and was babble monotonously to himself 'Layla Layla.' Zeira heard it and oral, 'what are you mumbling?

Repeal you have words? Give them to me; I'll do appropriate with them.' He pretty still forced him to give him the words. Zeira worked devotion the song for an inclusive week and then went forth Alterman. When he began telling, Alterman hugged him and whispered, 'now we have a song.''