Retirement Home Performances
Last
week we celebrated the end of
summer with the lovely people of a retirement home in Haifa where we
have had
the honor of performing for 12 years. We sang a set of summer songs,
both in
English and in Hebrew, and one of the songs we sang is called “Mahane Kayitz”
(Summer Camp). We told
the story of how the song was written by Nathan Alterman and was first
published in the newspaper “Davar L’Yeladim” in
1934.
To
our delight, when we completed
the show, one of the residents came up to us and excitedly relayed that
she
owns a copy of the original Davar newspaper from 1934, where the song
appears
on the cover page. The woman’s name is Nurit, and she also told us that
she
would like us to have the original paper as a gift!
Nurit went up to her
apartment, and just moments later came down to present the newspaper to
us. We
were amazed at how quickly Nurit located it in her apartment – how many
of us
know exactly where we placed a newspaper from 86 years ago?! Thank you
again
Nurit for this delightful and historic gift.