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Re: "Hava Nagila"
- From: SamWeiss <SamWeiss...>
- Subject: Re: "Hava Nagila"
- Date: Tue 18 Dec 2001 03.10 (GMT)
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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