Re: "Hava Nagila"

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Moshe Nathanson, of course, (apparently) wrote the *words* to "Hava Nagila," 
at the precocious age of ten or something.  The music, according to Velvel 
Pasternak (and others), was a Hungarian Hassidic niggun (melody) collected 
by Idelsohn and brought by him to then-Palestine.

Supposedly Idelsohn presented the melody to his cheder class as a tune in 
need of words ... and Moshe Nathanson provided some.

--Robert Cohen



As for the Birkat Hamazon, this was
>was an arrangement by cantor Moshe Nathanson (who also composed Hava 
>Nagila) of the German nusach for these prayers.
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