RE: Pakn Trager

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

Pakn Trager is mostly in English, with a wide range of Jewish 
cultural articles (not necessarily restricted to the world of Yiddish).

Very well done, very broad mandate, always worth reading from cover
to cover (or, if you except the Yiddish translation and page on fun
Yiddish phrases, almost from cover to cover--but I never skip them!)

It's published by the National Yiddish Book Center, http://www.nybc.org/

ari

At 04:16 PM 7/15/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Ignorant question:  Is this magazine in Yiddish (only)?--i.e., no English 
>translations of articles?
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>>From: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl (at) flash(dot)net>
>>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>>Subject: RE: What is the market for Jewish music Mag?
>>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:59:06 -0400
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>>The plan has long been to make this a national magazine.  The editor quit
>>and that has caused one big problem.  The hope to make it national is still
>>there, but there are all kinds of delays.
>>
>>It is wonderful a wonderful magazine.
>>
>>
>>Reyzl
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>>From:  Penny Chase[SMTP:pc (at) mitre(dot)org]
>>Sent:  Thursday, July 15, 1999 1:00 PM
>>To:  World music from a Jewish slant
>>Subject:  Re: What is the market for Jewish music Mag?
>>
>>--On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 4:00 PM -0400 Ari Davidow <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com> 
>>wrote:
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>> > The niche may be much larger than we think. I have no idea why Pakn
>> > Trager didn't/doesn't reach a wider audience, unless it just takes time
>> > to get people to realize how broad the range that it covers is. I do
>> > know that the NYBC has cut back on the publication schedule, which is
>> > most unfortunate.
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>>It's not clear to me that NYBC has tried to distribute it other than as
>>part of membership or at their gift shop, which is a shame because is is a
>>wonderful magazine (and the past two issues have touched upon the Klezmer
>>Revival and John Zorn). As for the reduction, I guess that NYBC felt that
>>they had to devote their resources to their main mission - saving and
>>distributing Yiddish books - rather than Pakn Trager.
>>
>>Penny
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