Lechol ish yesh shem - Jeder Mensch hat einen Namen

Efraim Sicher, dessen Vorfahren von Bruchsal aus nach Gurs deportiert wurden, schrieb in einer E-Mail: "You should know that it is important that "every person has a name" -- this song based on a poem by Hebrew poet Zelda; on holocaust day they read the names of the victims in Parliament."

Efraim weist in seinem Schreiben darauf hin, wie wichtig es sei zu wissen, dass "Jeder Mensch einen Namen" hat. Das gleichnamige Lied (Lechol ish yesh shem) hat als Grundlage das Gedicht von Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky. Am Holocaust-Gedenktag  (Jom Ha'Shoah) wird das Gedicht im Parlament von Israel vorgetragen.

Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky wurde 1914 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, als Kind einer Rabbiner-Familie geboren. Zusammen mit ihren Eltern übersiedelte sie 1926 nach Jerusalem, wo sie 1984 verstarb. Die Sängerin Chava Alberstein singt auf ihrer CD "Like a Wildflower" dieses Gedicht nach der Melodie von Hanan Yovel.

Every person has a name
that God gave him
and which his father and mother gave him
        
Every person has a name
which his height
and the style of his smile gave him
and which his tapestry gave him

Every person has a name
which the mountains gave him
and which his walls gave him.

Every person has a name
which the star signs gave him
and which his neighbours gave him.

Every person has a name
which his sins gave him,
and which his longing gave him.

Every person has a name
which his enemies gave him
and his love gave him.

Every person has a name
which his festivals gave him,
and which his work gave him.

Every person has a name
which the seasons gave him,
and which his blindness gave him.

Every person has a name
which the sea gave him,
and which his death gave him

© Zelda Schneurson Mishkowsky