RE: borrowed music

[Alex Lubet <lubet001...>]

>Wonderful post.  I have never heard of Ovadiah HaGer.  Thank you very much
>for it.
>
>We often don't consider the contribution of geyrim [=converts] or of Jews
>who converted out but came back and made important Jewish contributions.
>
There's a brief bio in the sometimes dependable 'Great Jews in 
Music,' where, as I recall, he's credited with being the first to 
notate nusach.

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