Re: Religious Festivities

On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 16:53:56 -0500 Carlos Thompson
<chlewey@...> writes:
>Eric Christopherson wrote:
>> Steg Belsky wrote:
>> > Are both Passover and Easter reffered to as Pascua in Spanish?
>I'veonly
>> > seen Passover as _Pe'saj_, a transliteration of the Hebrew name.
>> My dictionary gives "pascua" with both meanings. Interesting that
>> Pe'saj would be used. Where did you see that?
>The Spanish word is Pascua for both the Jewish and the Christian
>conmemoration.
>Probably many Jewish communities use the Hebrew name, which is in
>Spanish orthography: _P=E9saj_ (=E9 =3D e acute).  I gues in the
>English-speaking word, some
>Jewish communities use _Passover_ and many other use _Pesach_.
I'd expect that Spanish-speaking Jews would use the Hebrew name if Pe'saj
would be confused with Easter otherwise! :)  English-speaking Jews use
both the English and Hebrew names, although i've found that generally
people with more judaic education and/or knowledge of hebrew tend to use
Pesach.  "Passover" just sounds sorta weird to me...

>Unrelated: I saw yesterday _Prince of Egypt_ from DreamWorks.  I
>enjoyed the Movie about that first Pesach. ...
On the website for the movie it looked like there are a few different
language versions of it.  Did you see the Spanish version?  In the
English one i saw, i was pleasantly surprised to find out that some of
the songs included Hebrew phrases, such as the beginning "Deliver Us"
song where Yokheved sings _al tira ve'al tifhhad_ (don't be scared and
don't be afraid) to little Moses as she's putting him in the basket.
Also, the "Sea Song" had words from the real Song of the Sea (_shirat
hayam_), although i didn't really like the tune the movie used that much
:) .
Did the Spanish version also have these Hebrew phrases?  Maybe i should
check the website...


-Stephen (Steg)

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