Composer Unknown
Instrumentation and Vocals - Mark Farrugia
Ir me kero madre A yerusalayim
A pizar las yervasi artarme D’eyas
En el me arrimo yo
En el m’afiguro yo
El ez senyor de todo’l mundo
A yerusalayim, lo veyo D’enfrente
Pedri ayi mis ijos iparyentes
En el me arrimo yo
En el m’afiguro yo
El ez senyor de todo’l mundo
Many ancestral songs in Ladino capture the Sephardic longing for a return to Jerusalem, a feeling that would become one of the pillars of Zionism. This song was preserved by the exiles in Turkey and Bulgaria after 1492. "Ir me kero madre a Yerushaláyim... A Yerushaláyim lo veo d'enfrente, olvido mis ijos i mis parientes" (I want to go, Mother, to Jerusalem... I see Jerusalem in front of me, and I forget my own children and my relatives).