Re: Four Quesions on Am Yisroel Chai

[Dick Rosenberg <mashke...>]

My band (and probably the band of half the members on this list) plays what I 
consider the "other" version of Am Yisrael Chai (the one that sounds rather 
like Tsena, Tsena). I learned that long before I learned Shlomo Carlebach's and 
that has the Od Avinu Chai.

Dick Rosenberg
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gavriel Bellino 
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  Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 9:23 PM
  Subject: RE: Four Quesions on Am Yisroel Chai


  No. It's way older than that. Probably by a hundred years. He was 
commissioned to write a song with those words, but the words had been a part of 
our musical consciousness long before it. I believe that he added the words Od 
Avinu Chai on his own, paraphrasing Joseph's question to his brothers and their 
report back to Jacob. All best, GZB



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  Subject: Re: Four Quesions on Am Yisroel Chai



  Someone with more knowledge may wish to correct me....

  but.... I am pretty sure that Shlomo wrote this  for the refuseniks in the 
Soviet Union.

  Might have even debuted the tune when he was there.

  mike eisenstadt
  tampa