Re: Rabbenu Tam

[Robert A. Rothstein <rar...>]

music (at) sterlingmp(dot)org wrote:

>
>It may perhaps enlighten that, in her notes to this song in the WC's MIR TROGN
>A GEZANG, Chana Mlotek writes,
>
>"Who wrote the song? [? Not sure what's meant, as she attributes it, of 
>course, 
>to Itsik Manger] A tailor lad wrote the song to honor Rabbi Tam, but during 
>the 
>Sabbath some prankster laughingly inserted his own lines in perfect rhyme 
>instead."
>
>  
>
       "Ver hot geshribn dos lidele?" (Who wrote the song?) is the first 
line of the second stanza of Manger's ballad. A footnote in _The World 
According to Itzik: Selected Prose and Poetry_ , tr. and ed. Leonard 
Wolf (Yale University Press, 2002), also identifies Manger's Rabenu Tam 
with Rashi's grandson.

Bob Rothstein


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