RE: Yiddish Musical Theatre/Info. needed

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

Dear Reyzl:
I agree with you about the collection going to YIVO by the way!
Do you think that I should contact them or National Yiddish Book Center to 
see if they could use some type of fundraising, etc, assistance with this? 
You know so many people..have you got a good idea of who I should speak with 
?
  Trudi the G


>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: Yiddish Musical Theatre/Info. needed
>Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:06:09 -0500
>
>The person I was talking to said, "Brandies will probably get it", so I
>assume that they are/have been in negotiation.
>
>Although I doubt the NYBC is interested, I cc'ed my private response to
>Jacob's post to Aaron Lansky so Aaron knows.
>
>There is no question for me that this collection belongs in YIVO.  They are
>very well aware of the collection and they will do/are doing/have done
>whatever they can/want to do.   My interests in the YIVO archives lies
>elsewhere, so I have no interest in getting involved in this particular
>matter.
>
>I think that the other interested organizations are very well aware of the
>collection.  It has been "on sale" for some time now.  I am not involved in
>any of it and I don't care to get involved either.
>
>Mr. Rexite who has become old and weak, since his wife's death. Deals can
>take a long time and who knows how long he will live.  What is important
>now for someone to do is to sit down with him and collect his stories and
>recollections about whatever he wants to talk about.  Then let those
>recordings go where ever they may go with the other papers.  If you are
>interested in helping with this, then I suggest that, if you are a scholar,
>you get in touch with him.   If you are not a scholar, then suggest to
>theater scholars to study with him.   I think that this would be the most
>helpful thing you can do.   I say this because he isn't letting go of his
>control so fast and I don't see anyone paying his price so fast either.
>  Who knows, maybe the interested parties are waiting for the next Union
>president to give it away for free and for someone else to sit down with
>the scholars.  Who knows.
>
>
>Reyzl
>
>
>
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>From:  Trudi Goodman [SMTP:goobietheg (at) hotmail(dot)com]
>Sent:  Friday, January 07, 2000 7:12 PM
>To:  World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject:  RE: Yiddish Musical Theatre/Info. needed
>
>    Jacob/Reyzl:
>    I've got a couple of ideas....one is to query the Acting Department at
>Brandeis University. I seem to remember that they have some background with
>Yiddish Theatre. I know that they have had donations from the Muni Estate.
>    The other is that does the National Yiddish Book Center have a person 
>to
>get in touch with? I, for one would be more than happy, as an actor to
>donate my time to help with this.  If more actors and people who love
>theatre know, I'm sure that they would too. After all, a great many of us
>performers are influenced by the Yiddish Greats!! I'm just wondering if
>there's a person, or a name that I go to at National Yiddish Book Center?
>    Please let me know.
>    Trudi Goodman
>     trudigoodman (at) yahoo(dot)com
>
>
> >From: bloom (at) gis(dot)net (Bloom)
> >Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> >To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> >Subject: RE: Yiddish musical theater books
> >Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 23:00:27 -0500 (EST)
> >
> >Reyzl,
> >
> >Regarding the Hebrew Actors Union archive:
> >
> >The National Yiddish Book Center might be willing to take on the job of
> >raising $100,000 to preserve the archive.  They seem to be very good at
> >raising whatever it takes to keep Yiddish culture from disappearing, 
>under
> >desperate conditions.
> >
> >Of course, if some other organization is willing to take on the job,
>that's
> >fine with me, as long as the archive is saved, and then made available.
> >I'm willing to make a contribution to the cause.
> >
> >Jacob Bloom
> >
> >
> >Reyzl wrote:
> >
> >Judy,
> >
> > >There are very few works that provide _musical analysis_ as well as
> >history
> > >of who wrote what title or show. There is a lot of work to be done and
> >the
> > >history of Yiddish musical theater in America --a worthwhile project is
> > >awaiting someone.
> >
> >Secunda really did this in his serialized biography in the Yiddish
>Forwards
> >during the 1960's, but when his daughter in law, writer Victoria Secunda,
> >reworked the articles to construct an English version biography, she left
> >much of the knitty gritty details out.  But then, of course, Secunda 
>wrote
> >only about his music and only about the plays he composed for.
> >
> >However, the Hebrew Actors Union archive, an extraordinary treasure trove
> >of primary source material, has all the actual original books, notes,
> >scores, pads, scripts, notations, music, scraps,.... from all the Yiddish
> >shows.  The president of the union, the great star and historian of the
> >Yiddish theater, Seymour Rexite, is willing to donate the collection to a
> >major library, but the catch is that he will do so only if are willing to
> >personally pay him $100,000 so that he will sit with a scholar and 
>explain
> >the material and annotate it for you.  Anyone got a library which will 
>pay
> >$100,000 for this extraordinary collection?  I was recently at a dinner
> >party with a theater department chairperson of a New York college who was
> >working on getting the treasure trove, but it was a no go.
> >
> >
> >
>
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