![]() ![]() Imber's "Tikvatenu", however, was popular, and a sessions at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel in 1901 concluded with the singing of the poem. The quality of the entries were all judged unsatisfactory and none was selected. The Zionist Organization conducted two competitions for an anthem, the first in 1898 and the second, at the Fourth Zionist Congress, in 1900. ![]() Published in Imber's first book Barkai, Jerusalem, 1886 : CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link), was subsequently adopted as an anthem by the Hovevei Zion and later by the Zionist Movement. Imber's nine- stanza poem, " Tikvatenu" ( תִּקְוָתֵנוּ, "Our Hope"), put into words his thoughts and feelings following the establishment of Petah Tikva (literally "Opening of Hope"). Cohen's musical adaptation served as a catalyst and facilitated the poem's rapid spread throughout the Zionist communities of Palestine. In 1887, Shmuel Cohen, a very young (17 or 18 years old) resident of Rishon LeZion with a musical background, sang the poem by using a melody he knew from Romania and making it into a song, after witnessing the emotional responses of the Jewish farmers who had heard the poem. In 1882, Imber emigrated to Ottoman-ruled Palestine and read his poem to the pioneers of the early Jewish villages- Rishon LeZion, Rehovot, Gedera, and Yesud Hama'ala. His words "Lashuv le'eretz avotenu" (to return to the land of our forefathers) expressed its aspiration. The text of Hatikvah was written in 1878 by Naftali Herz Imber, a Jewish poet from Zolochiv (Polish: Złoczów), a city nicknamed "The City of Poets", then in Austrian Poland, today in Ukraine. Problems playing this file? See media help. ![]()
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