RE: Four Quesions on Am Yisroel Chai

[Gavriel Bellino <gavbellino...>]

Is that the one by Seymour Rockoff? Shlomo's is slightly older.

 

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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

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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