Nussach Ha Neiros Halalu - Chanuka

Hello,

My father learned this nussach for Ha Neiros Halalu for Chanuka from his Rabbi groing up, Rabbi Julius Schuback of East Chicago, Indiana. He, the rabbi, was from Frankfort and learned in the yeshiva of Frankfort before World War II. I now sing this version, but no one I know has ever heard it before. Perhaps it's being sung somewhat incorrectly, but this is how I grew up singing it. If anyone knows it or knows about it, please respond.

Thanks,

Gabe Lewin

Thank you for sending me the recording. I have never heard the melody before, but I am no expert.

I note that the Nusach project does not have a recording of Haneiros Halalalu.

The melody that I heard from my mother (from Berlin) is different from your melody and from any other melody that I have heard.

I was hoping someone better would make a sample of the melody I heard, but no one has so I am sending mine. Maybe Chazan Friedman would be able to do it over.

I wonder if anyone else has heard this melody.

This is the melody of Haneros Halolu that I heard from my mother who grew up in Berlin, but not associated with any particular kehilla there. I have not found it elsewhere, and I think a piece is missing. Can anyone help? (It would be better if someone else redid it, like Chazan Friedman.) This is a second try to attach the file.

Michael,

In Breuer's Neiros Halalu was not said (as I witnessed). Is it only minhag Frankfurt that did not say it? Or was it said only at home and not in shul? I understand that in your shul you do say it. For those that do not say it- what is the reason? Do we know who composed it and when?

Steven