Regina Spektor – Halikha LeKesariya (Eli, Eli)

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  General Comment:This song makes me want to speak Hebrew =]]

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  General Comment:My bad, gingerale. That was supposed to be a comment.
  
  This piece was written by a woman named Hannah Szenes.
  She was a Hungarian Jew who was taught by the British army how to parachute into Yugoslavia during WWII so that the Jews in Hungary could be saved from being deported to Auschwitz.
  
  It's so beautiful.

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    Yeah, the composer went back to her home country to try and rescue her mother from the Holocaust, but, in a bout of tragic irony, she was captured and murdered by the Nazis and her mother survived the Holocaust.

    Flag JaguarPirateon July 31, 2009  
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  General Comment:An incredibly elegant piece. God, I love Regina's voice.
  
  Translated to English, the lyrics read:
  -My God, My God, I pray that these things never end:
  -The sand and the sea,
  -The rush of the waters,
  -Lightening of the Heavens,
  -The prayer of Man
  
  If you want to hear this song, there is a good recording here:
  youtube.com/…

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    This piece is beautiful.

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