Judy Garland & "Eli, Eli"

[Bob Wiener <wiener...>]

I just saw the beginning  Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows and, 
forgetting the thread begun on this list by the post below, was surprised to 
hear her sing "Eli, Eli".  Several on the list conjectured that the "Eli, Eli" 
sung was not the Hannah Senesh version, but in fact, Yoel Kahn was correct -- 
it was.  (BTW, although most of the singing in the TV show was Judy's, it seems 
that no recording exists of Judy singing "Eli, Eli" so this song was ghost sung 
rather than lip-synched.)

Are there any other Jewish music anachronisms/mistakes in movies/TV shows that 
list members remember?

Bob

From: Yoel Kahn <ykahn (at) gtu(dot)edu>
Subject: Judy Garland & Eli, Eli
 
 On the recent TV movie about Judy Garland's life, the young Judy auditions for 
Louis B. Meyer.  At the end of the audition, he says to her sing something from 
opera and she offers Eli, Eli.  She then sings (in Hebrew) the familiar song, 
using the words of Hannah Senesh.  In so far as the Senesh poem, by all 
accounts, was not written until the 40s, this appears to be an anachronism.  
Someone suggested to me that there is an Eli, Eli (different words ) which was 
performed by Jan Peerce and would have
plausibly been in young Judy's repetoire.  I am assuming that contemporary 
Hollywood writers are alums of modern No. American Jewish summer camp culture 
and only know about the Senesh poem version, and so unwittingly created this 
anachronistic scene.  Does this make sense to those who know more about this 
than I?
 
 Yoel H. Kahn, Ph.D.
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California