MAYIM MAYIM

We are proud to reproduce the original sheet music and the words, dance notes, performance photographs and dance position drawings to Mayim Mayim, one of the earliest, and still one of the most popular, Hebrew folk dances.

The dance was choreographed in 1937 by Else Dublon to music composed by Emanuel Pugashov Amiran.

These treasured documents were published for the Zionist Organisation Youth Department in 1946 by "Lion the Printer" of 7 Hamagid Street, Tel Aviv.

To our knowledge this is the only place on the internet to view these historic documents. We are grateful to Howie Goldman of New York for sending them to us.

And we are especially grateful to the Jewish Agency, of which the Zionist Organisation Youth Department in 1946 was already an integral part, for their ongoing and dedicated work in spreading and illuminating Jewish culture and the Hebrew language via the internet. Their example provides the role model for Hebrew Songs.com and Israeli Dances.com

Click on the links for the historical pdfs of the original publication
Dance steps                  Words
Mayim Mayim on our sites:
Song words on Hebrew Songs.com
See the dance details in the Israeli Dances.com database
Listen to a 30-second audio clip of the song
Letter to the Jerusalem Post by the choreographer Else I. Dublin about the origins of Mayim Mayim. At the moment, year unknown.
The letter can be found in  Susan Reimer (ed.): Machol Ha'am. Dance of the Jewish People, (U.S.A.) 1978, page 37.**
Do you have a similar historical document? Please let us know.
**Thanks to Gary Fox of the Rikud chat list for sending in the article.
Our special thanks to ImageWorks for resizing the documents and making them web-ready.

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