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Jewish origin of a Xmas carol?

A cantor friend of many years ago used to say that he thought, or maybe thought 
he had learned somewhere, that "Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel" (which, 
irrelevantly, I find truly beautiful, though I pay no attn to the content--as 
opposed to the _sound_  (as in poetry) of the words) had some Jewish origin.  
He/I had/have no data whatsoever to support this, so I'm not suggesting it's 
true; but has anyone ever heard this?  Have any evidence of this?  Have any 
(Jewish) musically knowledgeable Christian friends who could be asked?  Many 
thanks--I guess I wish it were.


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