On Monday, August 26, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, MordecaiSp wrote:   
   > It was suggested that I post my request to this group. Y'all know your   
   > music, I'm told   
   >    
   > I'm looking for information on Woody Guthrie's mother, who was a   
   > Jewish/Yiddish songwriter. I believe that she wrote a famous Yiddish song.   
   > What was is her name/what is the song?   
   >    
   > You may respond to me directly.   
   >    
   > Shalom,   
   >    
   > Mordecai Specktor   
   > Staff Writer, The American Jewish World, Minneapolis   
   >    
   > mordecaisp@aol.com   
      
   You're probably thinking of his MOTHER-IN-LAW, Aliza Greenblatt, a well-known   
   Yiddish POET. Woody raised his kids Jewish and wrote some Chanukah songs   
   (mostly just the lyrics). When his widow, Nora, found them, she gave many of   
   them to the Klezmatics to    
   record (though you can find Woody singing a couple himself if you look hard   
   enough). The Klezmatics put out an album called "Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous   
   Chanukah," for which they wrote the music for several Chanukah songs that   
   Woody only wrote lyrics    
   for.   
      
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