Re: Cohan: not a Jew.

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

There are really fabulous (IMO) chanukah songs, but they were written in 
Yiddish ("Oy, khanike, oy, knanike", "O, ir kleyne likhtelekh", "Borukh 
ate", etc.)!  Even our most beloved Chanukah song in English ("I have a 
little dreidel") was really written in Yiddish ("Ikh bin a kleyner dreydl").
Lorele

TTova (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

>I agree that many of the popular tunes were less then masterful and I am 
>reminded of how disappointed I am that he or other great American songbook 
>composers never turned their attention to writing a really fabulous Chanukah 
>tune for example.
>Never the less
>

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