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"BaShana HaBa'a" (Hebrew: בשנה הבאה, "Next Year") is a 1970 Israeli song with music by Nurit Hirsch and lyrics by Ehud Manor. The song was first performed by the duo Ilan & Ilanit . Background
L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim (Hebrew: לְשָׁנָה הַבָּאָה בִּירוּשָלָיִם), lit. " Next year in Jerusalem ", is a phrase that is often sung at the end of the Passover Seder and at the end of the Ne'ila service on Yom Kippur .
Nurit Hirsh (Hebrew: נורית הירש, born August 13, 1942) is an Israeli composer, arranger and conductor who has written over a thousand Hebrew songs. [1] Three of her most famous and widely known songs are Ba-Shanah ha-Ba'ah (Next Year, lyrics by Ehud Manor), Oseh Shalom bi-Meromav (text from the Kaddish prayer).
The word itself essentially means "It would have been enough for us." "Day" is the Hebrew word for "enough" and the suffix "enu" means "our". The song goes through a series of gifts believed granted by God to the Israelites (such as Torah or Shabbat ), proclaiming that any of them alone would have been sufficient, to express greater ...
Ehud Weiner (later Manor) was born in Binyamina, in what is now Israel.He had two brothers, Ze'ev and Yehuda. He graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1959. He was married to actress Ofra Fuchs for 40 years; together, they had three children: Gali, Libby and Yehuda (Yadi), who was named after Manor's late brother, [1] a fallen soldier in the War of Attrition in 1968.
In addition to the production of CD recordings of this music, the Society has supported the renewed use of the Lewandowski tradition at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and at its campus synagogues in Cincinnati, Los Angeles and particularly in Jerusalem, where a Classical Reform worship service and concert have become an ...
Songs in the early days were often contrafacta – Russian folk tunes with translated or new lyrics in Hebrew. An example is Shir Hamitpachat, ("Song of the Kerchief") a Polish song by Jerzy Petersburski (Niebieska chusteczka, Sinij Platochek, синий платочек) [6] with Hebrew lyrics by the Israeli poet and lyricist Nathan Alterman.
Some melodies are quite old, while others may be based on popular Middle Eastern music, with the words composed specially to fit the tune. [1] A prolific composer of pizmonim of this last kind was Hakham Rephael Antebi Tabbush (Aleppo 1830 [ 2 ] -Cairo 1918), who is regarded as the founder of the tradition in its present form.