[HANASHIR:15788] Re: Am Yisrael Chai

[Jacqueline Guttman <jguttman...>]

What's a levaya? Memorial service? Funeral? Tribute?

Thank you.

Jackie Guttman

(It's Riverdale, if anyone wants to know where Avi Weiss is.)


From: Richard Green <rmarkgreen (at) hotmail(dot)com>
Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:53:11 -0500
To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
Subject: [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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