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]).