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 (Share your favorite recipe. composed in the German Lied /If Send it to the Jewish Chronicle, style, or by adoption of German MI 525 Woodward avenue, Detroit 26.) folk and church songs, to Hebrew or German religious texts. The reshaping of the liturgy of the Brunswick Synagogue (Ger- many) was initiated by Rabbi Passover Greetings Herzfield in 1842. 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General Agency Insurance Page Eleven Frederick March `Adopts' DP Girl better understandable and (3) to adjust them to the aesthetic feel- ings of his time. * * * 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 Passover Greetings resounds in the houses of worship of all the different Jewish reli- gious denominations. * * * 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- West Grand Blvd. ohenu" was sung during the first Jewish service by American sol- At Twelfth 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 PASSOVER GREETINGS 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. BUILDER'S HARDWARE The new Synagogue melodies Paint Glass were rehearsed under his personal Electrical Appliances direction. One of the last great interna- 15738 Livernois - UN. 2-7302. tional Jewish meetings before 13513 Fenkell VE. 7.9490 World War H in London was 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- PASSOVER GREETINGS henu," the Jewish representatives of many countries were united in one mighty hymn. * * * 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 Butter, Eggs, Cheese strong rhythm of the Ilebrew text. That he succeeded in the spirit of his time, is proven by 1951 E. FERRY the wide spread of the melody. 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