Re: "Hava Nagila"

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

This "fact" has been disputed on this list previously, and inconclusively.  Any
new info?

Lorele


Robert Cohen wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >_____________________________________________________________
> >Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ
> >

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