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Re: "Be'arvot Hannegev"/"Erev Shel Shoshanim"
- From: Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>
- Subject: Re: "Be'arvot Hannegev"/"Erev Shel Shoshanim"
- Date: Tue 25 Dec 2001 20.03 (GMT)
Judith Cohen advised--and thanks so much, Judith (and Solly!), for the
responses to various inquiries, including mine--that an Israeli song whose
title is in the Subject Line (the second word was actually spelled
"Hanneguev" in the posting--I assumed a typo? Or not?) was borrowed for
"Yigdal" in Morocco, according to Solly.
I have lots of records of early-Israel folk songs and can't find this one,
nor have I ever heard of it. Does it sometimes go by an alternative name?
Or is it a more contemporary Israeli song? (Chassidic Song Festival?) Does
anyone know a record or two on which it appears? Would *very* much like to
hear it for myself!
Interesting, btw, that Judith cites "Erev Shel Shoshanim" (along with
"Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" and "Hatikvah"--surely the contemporary cantorial
greatest hits of borrowing for liturgy) as a melody appropriated by Moroccan
cantors for davening. The song is a prime example of what in an earlier
post (in response to our other Judy!) I called "losing the composer": Its
melody is familiar to *most* synagogue-going (and lots of
*non*-synagogue-going) Jews; its composer (Yosef Hadar) to virtually none.
--Robert Cohen
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- Re: "Be'arvot Hannegev"/"Erev Shel Shoshanim",
Robert Cohen