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Re: "Hava Nagila"

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.

Actually, that is my understanding also, and I should not have said that he 
<<composed "Hava Nagila">>.
BTW the niggun in question is of the Sadigura Hassidim, which town is 
located in present day Ukraine.

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