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Chava Alberstein ({{lang-he|חוה אלברשטיין}}, born December 8, 1946 in Poland) is an Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger.

Biography

Chava Alberstein, born in Szczecin, Poland, moved to Israel with her family in 1950.^[1] She grew up in Kiryat Haim.

In 1964, when she was 17, she was invited to appear at the Hammam Nightclub in Jaffa. She sang four songs accompanied by herself on guitar and her brother Alex on the clarinet.^[2] The program was broadcast live on the radio. After a guest appearance on Moadon Hazemer, recorded on Kibbutz Beit Alfa, she signed a recording contract with CBS.^[2] Early in her career, she appeared at the Amami Cinema in Haifa's Neve Sha'anan neighborhood. Haaretz columnist Neri Livneh describes her as "a little slip of a thing in a blue youth movement shirt, her face covered by huge glasses".^[3]

Alberstein was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in 1965, and became one of many Israeli artists to rise to stardom by entertaining the troops.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}

Musical career

Alberstein has released more than 60 albums. She has recorded in Hebrew, English and Yiddish. In 1980, Alberstein began to write and compose. Most of the songs on her album Mehagrim (Immigrants) are her own work.^[2] Alberstein's husband was the filmmaker Nadav Levitan, who wrote the lyrics for her "End of the Holiday" album. In 1986 she wrote music for Levitan's film Stalin's Disciples.^[4] Levitan died in 2010. Her songs have been included in a number of multi-artist collections, among them "Songs of The Vilna Ghetto" and "The Hidden Gate – Jewish Music Around the World".

Critical acclaim

According to Israel's second largest daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, Alberstein is the most important female folk singer in Israel history:^[5]

Political views and controversy

Alberstein is a champion of liberal causes. Throughout her career she has been an activist for human rights and Arab-Israeli unity.^[1] In 1989, Alberstein's song Had Gadya (a spin-off on a traditional song Chad Gadya, which is sung at the Passover seder^[6]) in which she criticizes Israel's policy towards Palestinians, was banned by Israel State Radio.^[4]^[7]^[8] The song was later used in the film Free Zone by director Amos Gitai in Natalie Portman's 7-minute crying scene.^[9]

Alberstein is also a champion of the Yiddish language both in her recordings and in a video titled "Too Early To Be Quiet, Too Late To Sing",^[14] which showcases the works of Yiddish poets.

Awards

Alberstein won the Kinor David (David's Harp) Prize. In 1999 she received the Itzik Manger Prize.^[10] She received the Lifetime Achievement Music Award from the Israel Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers of Musical Works, and holds honorary doctorates from Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science of Israel. She will be awarded a honorary doctorate by Brandeis University in the Commencement ceremonies of 2018.

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Discography

References

1. ^¹{{cite book |author=Richard Nidel |publisher=Routledge |year=2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZU7CKISitZsC&pg=PA197&lpg=PA197&dq=chava+alberstein+arabic&source=bl&ots=3yUCW8rH_3&sig=Hu9-XgsUHIj1BIl93I559WC2Fj0&hl=en&ei=K6vBSsmFDsr14Abl9vWKCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCAQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=chava%20alberstein%20arabic&f=false |title=World music: The basics}}
2. ^¹²Chava Alberstein bio {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930152618/http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/PEOPLE/BIOS/alberstein.html |date=September 30, 2009 }}
3. ^Haaretz {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090811050743/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1009534.html |date=August 11, 2009 }}
4. ^¹{{cite news |last=Dorůžka |first=Petr |date=October 2008 |title=Chava Aberstein má ráda izraelskou poušť |work=Harmonie |issue=10 |pages=18–21|language=cs}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://aviv2.com/chava/ |title=Chava Alberstein |publisher=Aviv Productions, Ltd |date=December 11, 2001 |accessdate=August 22, 2011}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.chatrh.org/haggadah/zarek.htm |title=Adam Zarek – Chad Gadya |publisher=Chatrh.org |date= |accessdate=August 22, 2011}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.freemuse.org/sw11404.asp |title=Israel: Chava Alberstein banned |publisher=Freemuse |date= |accessdate=August 22, 2011}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/2/Music/Israeli_Music/Popular_Music/Chava_Alberstein.shtml |title=Chava Alberstein: Multilingual Folkie |publisher=My Jewish Learning |date= |accessdate=August 22, 2011}}
9. ^{{cite web |url=http://twitchfilm.net/archives/006991.html |title=2006 SFJFF (San Francisco Jewish Film Festival) — Interview With Amos Gitaï |author= Michael Guillen |publisher=twitchfilm.net |date=July 27, 2006}}
10. ^{{cite book |first=Nathan |last=Shahar |chapter=Chava Alberstein |title=Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia |date=March 2009 |chapter-url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/alberstein-chava |publisher=Jewish Women's Archive }} The date of the Manger Prize is given in {{cite web |title=Mendele: Yiddish literature and language |url=http://www.columbia.edu/~jap2220/Arkhiv/vol09%20(1999-2000)/vol09011.txt |accessdate=2019-03-20 }} Archive of the Mendele mailing list.
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/5480/Alberstein-Chava-1947.html#ixzz0NShai89a |title=Alberstein, Chava (1947–) – Personal History, Influences and Contributions, The First Years (1967–69), Biographical Highlights, Personal Chronology:, The 1970s – Album, Songs, Music, Yiddish, Israeli, and Musical |publisher=Encyclopedia.jrank.org |date=December 8, 1947 |accessdate=August 22, 2011}}
12. ^¹²³{{cite web|url=http://www.aviv2.com/chava/ |title=Chava Alberstein |publisher=Aviv Productions, Ltd |date=December 11, 2001 |accessdate=August 22, 2011}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~djsa/view_song.php?songId=828 |title=Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive |publisher=Dartmouth.edu |date= |accessdate=August 22, 2011}}