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.
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