Singing Lea Goldberg. 2 CD set

Number of CD(s) in package: 2 

This unique collection has all the greatest songs written with the poetry of Lea Goldberg, one of the most famous jewish poets and writers of the last century. All the songs are performed by top Israeli female artists.

The first disk contains new melodies, most performanced by new singers, such as Etti Ankri, Efrat Ben Zor, Tami Anbar, Yasmin Even and Sharon Roter.

The second disk contains all the most famous songs of Lea Goldberg such as Pizmon Likinton, Yamim Levanim, Ma ehye be sofeinu performed by leading Israeli artists, such as Chava Alberstein, Nurit Galron, Ilanit, Yehudith Rabitz, Dana Berger, Yael Levi, Natanela, Rita and others.

The included booklet contains all the words of the songs, the biography of Lea Goldberg and explanations behind the songs written in Hebrew by her close friend Toviah Rivner. This is a must have collection for anybody who likes Israeli music.

Lea Goldberg (1911-1970) was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, (today Kaliningrad in Russia), spent her early childhood in Russia, and returned with her family after the 1917 Revolution to their home in Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania. She began to publish Hebrew verse while still a schoolgirl. Goldberg attended the University of Kovno, and then Berlin University (where she earned a doctorate in Semitic studies in 1933) and the University of Bonn.

In 1935 she settled in Tel Aviv where she became one of Israel's leading intellectuals and poets. She joined the staffs of the newspapers Ha’aretz and Davar and became children books' editor of Sifriyat Po'alim publishing house, as well as as literary consultant to the Habima theater and theater critic for the Al Ha-Mishmar journal. Goldberg was the founder of the Department of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (which she chaired from 1952 until her death).

A prolific and versatile writer, Lea Goldberg's work includes lyrical poetry, literary criticism, books for children, and translations of European classics into Hebrew. Goldberg translated numerous foreign works into Hebrew, using her excellent knowledge of 7 languages. She was also one of Israel's most successful children's writers with 20 popular works to her credit. Two entire generations of Israeli youth have grown up on her stories and poems. Her poetry for adults deals mainly with childhood, love, aging and death; it is highly personal, introspective, and modern in its understated (and often starkly simple) tone.