Friday, April 4, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
A Passover
Recipe
Camp Director
`En Kelohenu' Melody Traced
to German Conductor of '60's
By ERIC MANDELL
(Eric Mandell, writer on Jew-
ish music and owner of one of
the larger 'private collections of
Jewish music in the country, is
director of music of liar Zion
Temple, Philadelphia, and la
instructor of Hebrew Music at
Gratz College Philadelphia.)
11IATZ011 KNAIDLACH
2 eggs
4 tablespoons cold water
% tablespoon salt
2 tablespoon chicken fat
I.!p cup matzo meal
Beat eggs and fat in a deep
bowl. Add water, salt and stir in
matzoh meal to form a thick bat-
ter. Chill in refrigerator. To form
the Knaidlach, dip the palms of
both bands in cold water and
shape the mixture into balls the
size of walnuts. Drop one by one
Into rapidly boiling salted water.
Cover and cook 20 minutes. Drain
or skin out individually. Serve
with hot soup. Two tablespoons
of minced parsley can be added to
the mixture, If desired.
ISRAEL JACOBSON, the foun-
der of Reform Judaism in Ger-
many in the very beginning of the
19th century. did not succeed with
his original revolutionary ideas.
Only a moderate reform of syn-
agogue services took place in many
Jewish congregations in Germany
and, consequently in Western
Europe.
Most of the Hebrew prayers
were retained, but a number of
the traditional melodies were dis-
carded. Attempts were made to
substitute them by chorals, either
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or German religious texts.
The reshaping of the liturgy of
the Brunswick Synagogue (Ger-
many) was initiated by Rabbi
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Herzfield in 1842. This modern
Rabbi, who was one of the co-
workers of the first Jewish book-
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club, the famous "Institut zur
Forderung der Israelitischen Lit-
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vancement of Jewish Literature),
based the reformation of his ser-
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SONGS POPULAR
THE TASK OF the reworking
of the musical aspects of the lit-
urgy was given to two men: To
the cantor of the Brunswick Syn-
agogue, Hirsch Goldberg, who also
served in the same capacity in the
Jacobson Temple in Seesen (1833-
1842), and to the director of the
Ducal Brunswick Orchestra, Julius
Freudenthal.
In November 1842 we already
find a report in the "Allgemeine
Zeitung des Judentums" (a week-
ly newspaper for Judaism) that
the Brunswick congregation ac-
cepted the new musical settings
with great enthusiasm.
These Brunswick Synagogue
songs spread quickly all over Ger- IIENRY R. GOLDBERG, New
many and beyond its border, after York educator, has accepted the
invitation to direct Camp Ram-
they were printed in 1843.
The question about the most ah at Eagle River, Wis., the first
popular Synagogue melody of the summer camp for boys and girls
last century has its answer in officially established by the con-
connection with the "Braunschwei- servative Jewish movement, it
ger Gesange." We find in this was announced by Dr. Moshe
comparatively early Hebrew music Davis, dean of the teachers in-
print, Julius Freudenthal's melody stitute of the Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary of America, and
to "En Kelohenu."
The great Jewish musicologist Reuben R. Kaufman, chairman
Prof. A. Z. Idelsohn, called this of the Council of Conservative
song the most popular Synagogue Synagogues, midwestern branch
melody of the last hundred years. of the United Synagogue.
Today, the tune is still sung in
many Synagogues all over the fi
world. In the United States it
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resounds in the houses of worship
of all the different Jewish reli-
gious denominations.
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SUNG BY YANKS
TILE FIRST EDITION of the
Union Hymnal (1897) quotes
Freudenthal's melody as "Ger-
man," and doesn't mention his
name. It may also be recorded
here that Freudenthal's "En Kel-
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ohenu" was sung during the first
Jewish service by American sol-
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diers on German soil in Aachen
after the defeat of the Hitler re-
gime in 1945, where it was broad
cast to America.
Julius Freudenthal lived from
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1805 to 1874. About his activi-
ties as the conductor of the ducal
orchestra in Brunswick, nothing is
known. Concerning the relation-
ship of Freudenthal to Judaism,
it is recorded, that he was a mem-
ber of the Jewish community.
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opened by a service. As the con-
gregational melodies, sung at this
occasion, were not familiar to the
delegates, they could not take part
in the singing. But when the
choir at the end of the service
started Freudenthal's "En Kelo-
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henu," the Jewish representatives
of many countries were united in
one mighty hymn.
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MELODY POPULAR
HOW DID THIS MELODY be-
come so popular? Freudenthal fol-
lowed the words of the prayer in
easy, singable tone steps. He
tried to recapture in music the
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strong rhythm of the Ilebrew
text. That he succeeded in the
spirit of his time, is proven by
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the wide spread of the melody.
Idelsohn, in his "Jewish Music,"
states Freudenthal's melody as
typical German in the melodic
line. lie also gives examples of
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German songs from 1774, 1819
and 1844 which have the same
motifs.
The earliest known melody set
to "En Kelohenu" was written by
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"En Kelohenu" tune is to he
C. A. BRADY
found in a weekly "The Jew"
printed in Leipzig in 1768.
W. L. MAYBERRY
Where is the composer of our
time who writes the new "En
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but mighty hymn which will in-
spire the worshipper to join in the
singing of this ancient Jewish
prayer?
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