An Hour 12- Sacrifice by Arie Shapira (part 1) Track

Ophir Ilzetzki goes into a detailed cultural analysis of Akeda (sacrifice), the highly political oratorio written between 1981 and 1982 and only premiered last year (!), portraying a narrative of the Israeli history by Israel’s foremost composer, Arie Shpira: http://hcc.haifa.ac.il/~ariks/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A link to the text of Genesis 21 & 22 in English: http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0121.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0122.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A link to Paul Celan’s Death Fugue in John Felsteiner’s translation: http://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/deathfugue.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A link to Chinese people attempting Israeli folk dances: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFG44Yv5JB8