Hello, I am an independent musician and author. I have spent three years finding and compiling the melodies to almost 120 songs chosen by Warsaw book and record-store owner Itzik Zhelonek as "The Best and Newest Theater Songs" of his time. He published the lyrics to the songs in 7 tiny booklets I found at the National Library in Jerusalem and at the Chabad library in Brooklyn. This seemed to me a wonderful primary source answering the question: what songs were people loving before the Holocaust brought an almost permanent end to jovial, droll, cosmopolitan Yiddish music?
I'm currently doing the final edit on the book and it will be published in May. It will have the melodies, chords, transliterations, translations, notes on the songs and the singers, and information about the archives where the original sources I used can be found. I believe this book is unique. Many of these songs have, I'm quite sure, not been heard since before the War. What might be the best way for me to publicize this book to libraries? Thank you, Jane Peppler The book is already available (though before its last edit) as a pdf, see http://yiddishemporium.com the first item. You can see the table of contents there, too.
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