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Re: AFO AVRAHAM AVINU
- From: Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>
- Subject: Re: AFO AVRAHAM AVINU
- Date: Fri 24 Sep 1999 00.41 (GMT)
Thanks to all, Ron and Caron and Cantor Mandi (and others) included. But
does anyone know what the words _mean_? Could you supply transliterated
Hebrew + a translation? Many thanks if possible--rlc
>From: RONOREN (at) aol(dot)com
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: AFO AVRAHAM AVINU
>Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 01:00:27 EDT
>
>Robert,
>The song you call "Afo Avraham Avinu" must be "Aifo Hem Kol Avotenu", the
>5th track on the classic "The High Windows" (Chalanot Hagvohim) album,
>released on Hed Arzi in Israel in 1967 or 1968. It begins with those
>words.
>The record was all the rage there in the summer of '68 when I visited as a
>boy. It is on CD and can be obtained easily. I have seen it in Simon's
>store in Los Angeles, among others. Group featured, as I recall, the
>supergroup pairing of Arik Einstein, Shmuel Kraus and Josie Katz.
>Ron Orenstein
>
>
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