Hed Arzi Music
Hed Arzi Music (Hebrew: הד ארצי, meaning: Echo of My Country) is an Israeli record label founded in 1946.The company was founded in Tel Aviv in 1946 as a partnership of Zvi Levin (also known as Hirsch Lewin) with Josef Grossman, Alexander Borowitz and Ephraim Ruttenberg.Mr. Levin was a refugee from Berlin where he has owned and operated a bookshop and recording label Semer (from the Hebrew "Zemer", meaning song).The Semer label operated from approximately 1932 until the recording masters and inventory were smashed and burned during Kristallnacht.Hed-Arzi started operating in September 1947, managed by Ephraim Felix Rzeczynski, making it the oldest recording company in Israel (followed by Makolit in Jaffa, Tslil in Tel-Aviv and others[1]).