[HANASHIR:15742] Re: Am Yisrael Chai

We had discussed this already awhile ago. I think it's from Kiddush Levana if I remember correctly. Shlomo added on the "Od avinu chai" part later.

His melody was composed as the leaders of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry approached Shlomo to wite a niggun for them. Rabbi Avi Weiss of Hebrew Instittue of Rivendale can elaborate on this. He spoke about it at Shlomo's levaya.

>From: "Shir Chadash"

>Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org

>To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org

>Subject: [HANASHIR:15732] Am Yisrael Chai

>Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:59:48 +0000

>Does anyone know the origins of the text of the song Am Yisrael Chai

>by Carlebach? The only information I could find was a reference in

>a Velvel Pasternak book to it being a kind of anthem to Jews in the

>former Soviet Union. But there is no indication of the origin of

>the text itself.

>Thanks,

>Rachelle Shubert

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