RE: Pakn Trager; NYBC

[Aaron Bousel <apbousel...>]

http://www.nybc.org/ gets you the New York Blood Center!  Didn't see any
Yiddish related links there.

Aaron
(come out from lurking in the shadows)


At 09:44 AM 7/16/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>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
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>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?
>>
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>----------
>>>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:
>>>
>>> > 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.
>>>
>>>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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