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 an emigrant from Berlin where he 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 )
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
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