RE: Fw: Yiddish Songs

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

Bob,


Off the top of my head,

There are several books on Yiddish Theater in English, but I don't remember 
all the titles at the moment, except for "Vagabond Stars".  I do remember 
some authors' names though, e.g., Joseph C. Landis (American), Faina Burko 
(Soviet theater), Marvin Seiger (American), Edna Nachshon (on the Artef 
Yiddish Theater= Communist) of JTS.   Theirs are PHd works written before 
1985.   There should be a Yiddish and English bibliography in Nahma 
Sandrow's Vagabond Stars of works written before the publication of her 
book (don't remember the year.)  I am sure that there are many titles and 
articles since then, which will require a search on the web.

I have several Yiddish books on Yiddish theater, but sorry, I don't have 
time to look through my large library and it won't help you much since I 
don't know exactly where and how much those books discuss theater songs. 
 If you are serious, you will walk into the YIVO library and the librarians 
will quickly get you the material you need.  You realize of course that if 
you will walk into the YIVO archives, they will ask you for the name of the 
composer you want and you will be touching and perusing the private papers 
and works of a great many composers of the Yiddish theater.   Of course, 
there a very large collection of sheet music, much of it from theatrical 
sources, here and Europe.  So, if you are serious in your query, the place 
to go is YIVO.

The Mlotek song book collections also very often indicate the sources of 
the songs.  Other collections indicate the same.  I think that Mark Slobin 
wrote about theater songs, but at this moment I don't remember the 
title(s).  He must have a web page with a bibliography or else a web search 
will yield his works.  You can search for theater songs there.  Same goes 
for recordings of the Yiddish theater stars, too many to mention here. 
 there should also be a great deal of material in the Lincoln Center branch 
of the NY Public Library.

There was a PHd thesis written about 2 years ago by Joel Berkowitz, who 
focused on Shakespearian productions in the Yiddish theater.  He may have a 
recent bibliography on the Yiddish theater there.   But these days you 
should get that easily online in/from any public or research library

Reyzl


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From:  robert wiener [SMTP:wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com]
Sent:  Tuesday, January 04, 2000 11:28 AM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  Re: Fw: Yiddish Songs

Reyzl,

That's great to know -- even for those of us for whom the material in
Yiddish is less accessible.

What would you recommend, in Yiddish or English?

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl (at) flash(dot)net>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 11:10 AM
Subject: RE: Fw: Yiddish Songs


>There is a lot of material - in Yiddish.
>
>There are several books in English on Yiddish theater and they must
discuss the songs.
>
>
>Reyzl
>
>
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>From:  robert wiener [SMTP:wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com]
>Sent:  Tuesday, January 04, 2000 9:01 AM
>To:  World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject:  Re: Fw: Yiddish Songs
>
>Hankus,
>
>I was going to mention "Tenement Songs" (which I do own, along with
>the tape), but it seemed to me that there must be some book out there
>devoted entirely to Yiddish theater music.  Certainly there is plenty
>of material.  And there are many recordings, including one by Jan
>Peerce.
>
>Maybe someone on the list will fill the gap.
>
>Bob
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com <HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com>
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 8:40 AM
>Subject: Re: Fw: Yiddish Songs
>
>
>>
>>In a message dated 1/3/00 4:04:10 PM, you wrote:
>>
>><<While looking on my shelves for information on Bertha Kalich, I
>>
>>realized that I have no books on music of the Yiddish theater (aside
>>
>>from books of the music itself).  Any recommendations?
>>
>>
>>Bob
>>
>>This is one of those shameful gaps.  "Tenement Songs" is a start,
but
>a full
>>length volume (or ten) is sorely needed.  --hankus
>>
>>
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