Hello Tamara, There are two cds and in a couple weeks there will be a third. People can listen to all the songs on the cds for free at the central site, http://yiddishemporium.com
I will try to contact the Yiddish Book Center, thank you. Jane On 1 April 2014 13:53, Tamara Silberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Will you also be doing a recording and concerts? I believe the best way > to get the word out is for people to hear this music. See if you can get a > grant. Try calling the Yiddish Center in Amherst, MA for some suggestions. > > Best of Luck > Tamara Silberman > On Monday, March 31, 2014 7:07 PM, Jane Peppler <[email protected]> > wrote: > 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. > > __ > Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual > author > and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries > (AJL) > ================================== > Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: > [email protected] > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > Earlier Listserver: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > AJL HomePage http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ > -- > Hasafran mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > > >
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