Re: Richard Farina/Carolyn Hester

Joan Baez's dad was Mexicano. However, Baez is sometimes a Sephard name. There was a Nobel Winning Scientist with that last name, who was Jewish..and also Sephard and Latino.

As for Farina...he learned La Rosa from Carolyn Hester...the same place by the way that Joanie learned Donna Donna from. As a matter of fact, Joan lifted alot of material wholecloth from Carolyn Hester...especially the Childe Harold ballads.

So I'd thank Carolyn Hester for being so charitable.

Trudi

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>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org

>To: World music from a Jewish slant

>Subject: Re: Richard Farina Jewish?

>Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 10:55:12 -0700 (MST)

>SFAIK, Richard Farina's parentage was (non-Jewish) Cuban and Irish.

>Can't be certain, but I sure think Mimi Farina would have advised of

>(Sephardic) Jewish parentage if it were so.

>As for Mimi herself and her sister Joan, not sure why someone thought them

>possible sources. Mimi can surely be excluded, as I _asked_ her the source

>and she advised as I've ... advised. And Joan pretty much for the same

>reason, really, and anyway there's no reason to think she'd be

>knowledgeable in re such a song. (Though she *did* learn "Donna Donna," as

>we've explored here ...)

>I think I remember that Joan's father, Albert, whom I met, was also Cuban,

>btw.

>--Robert Cohen

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> Subject: Re: JEWISH-MUSIC digest 2594

> From: Warschauer (at) aol(dot)com

> Date: Sat, May 3, 2003 9:34 pm

> To: World music from a Jewish slant

> Regarding Richard Farina: I've often wondered if Farina himself might

> have been Sephardic. It's just a pet theory of mine (with absolutely

> nothing to back it up!) that I've had for years, since I first heard

> the song in question. I can't remember the name of his novel, but

> the hero is Greek, as I remember. If it's true that Farina was

> Sephardic, he could have learned the song from family members.