Re: Jewish origin of a Xmas carol?

[Sherry Mayrent <oyfpro...>]

At 01:01 PM 12/22/98 -0700, robert cohen wrote:

>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. 


Well, I would have said that it came pretty directly from plain
song/gregorian chant.  However, I think you could probably trace gregorian
chant back to cantillation, if you were determined to do so.


Sherry Mayrent
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