Mail Archive sponsored by
Chazzanut Online
jewish-music
Re: "Rock of Ages"?
- From: Bob Wiener <wiener...>
- Subject: Re: "Rock of Ages"?
- Date: Tue 18 Dec 2001 02.41 (GMT)
Words: By "Mordecai," 14th Century; translated from Hebrew to German by Leopold
Stein (1810-1882); translated from German to English by Marcus Jastrow
(1829-1903) and Gustav Gottheil (1827-1903). Isn't that the Marcus Jastrow of
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the
Midrashic Literature---Volumes 1 and 2 fame?
Music: "Maoz Tsur," German Ashkenazic melody
Here are links to info on Gottheil (who was buried in Queens, NY -- don't you
hail from there yourself Robert?)
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/g/o/gottheil_g.htm
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/r/o/rockalos.htm
(including lyrics, music, score)
Thank you, Robert, for putting me on the trail of a fascinating story.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Lori Cahan-Simon
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: "Rock of Ages"?
Coopersmith's The Songs We Sing has the English translation by one G.
Gottheil. I have no clue as to who this is/was.
Lorele
Robert Cohen wrote:
While it's still (barely!) Chanukah, I've meaning to ask the following:
Does anyone know who wrote the (English, obviously) words to "Rock of
Ages"?
When?
(Google leads to a "Rock of Ages, Cleft for me, Let me hide myself in
Thee,"
written by one Augustus Toplady: "one of the most popular hymns ever
written"! Needless to say, that's *not* it!
What is?
--Robert cohen
_________________________________________________________________
Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail.
http://www.hotmail.com