לפנים | Lefanim | Go Up-Front (1912)

Artist: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882-1938)

Hebrew translation (PDF)

Scientific contributions

• Das „jüdisch-deutsche Liederbuch von 1912“ (by Dr. Gila Fam, 13. September 2022)

This song was published in Ha-Zamir (Odessa, 1903: pp. 11-12), with instructions that Idelsohn omitted in Sefer Ha-Shirim.

“Lefanim” tells children to go out to the fields and, once there, dance, sing – and march like soldiers.

The melody, whose source is unidentified, is in a major key.

Included in

• Sefer ha-Shirim (Book of Songs)

Scores

Original (PDF) Modernized (PDF)

Transliteration

Transliteration (PDF)