Re: growth in interest in Yiddishkeit

[the Cheshire Cat <alanacat...>]

I don't know if this will help, but I've got tons of CDs both obscure and
known from new klezmer groups. I could probably just send you a list....
There's tons of stuff out there too... you're in for quite a project...

Alana


On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Seth Rogovoy wrote:

> For a project I'm working on, I am looking for hard figures documenting
> the growth of interest in Yiddishkeit in general and Klezmer (neo-Klezmer,
> New Jewish music, whatever you want to call it) in particular.
> 
> Does anyone have any such figures, such as CD sales figures, concert
> attendance, numbers of Klezmer bands? Optimally I would like to show
> growth over a period of time.
> 
> Also of interest would be documenation of books and films on Yiddishkeit,
> including sales figures or viewerships. Presumably someone might have
> written an article on this sort of thing over the past year which might
> have included some of these figures.
> 
> If anyone could provide me with some of this documentation or point me the
> way to it, I'd be extremely appreciative.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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Alana Suskin,
Mitnaggedet Mama