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Shlomo Carlebach's rousing "Am Yisrael Chai, Od Avinu Chai," "the people of Israel lives, our father still lives," has become one of the most popular, identity-affirming contemporary Jewish songs. But the second phrase, in its original form, was not an exclamation but a question. When he finally revealed himself to his brothers in Egypt, Joseph asked, "Od Avinu Chai?" Does our father still live? Why did Carlebach combine these two verses? Perhaps became Joseph needed to know whether he could be reunited with his father, Israel, before he could affirm that the people of Israel lived on.
When the remnant of European Jewry emerged from the death camps, forests and hiding places throughout Europe in the winter and spring of 1945, they looked for their families and, overwhelmingly, discovered that their fathers and mothers, their husbands, wives and children, their brothers and sisters,...
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