RE: Yiddish Musical Theatre/Info. needed

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

  Reyzl:
  Thanks for the info. I'll get in touch with them, directly!
  Trudi Goodman

>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: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:44:41 -0500
>
>I think you can offer your services to Marek Web, the head of the YIVO
>Archives or Dr. Carl Rheins, the new YIVO director.  I think that would be
>great, especially if you know people who can give money.  I want to focus
>on raising money for the film archive which my husband, Josh Waletzky, set
>up at YIVO in the mid seventies.
>
>Here is a letter from Aaron Lansky to Jacob and myself last week after I
>cc'ed Aaron my response to Jacob.  You can see yourself from the response
>that the NYBC is not the place for this collection.
>
>
>Reyzl
>
>
>-----------------------------------------------------
>From:  Aaron Lansky [E-MAIL ADDRESS]
>Sent:  Sunday, January 09, 2000 2:05 PM
>To:  'Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky'; 'bloom (at) gis(dot)net'
>Cc:  'Neil Zagorin'; 'Nancy Sherman'; 'Aaron'
>Subject:  RE: Yiddish musical theater books
>
>Dear Mr. Bloom:
>
>Reyzl shared with me your correspondence re: the archive of the Hebrew
>Actors Union.  It sounds like a crucially important resource, and by all
>means should be cataloged and properly housed.
>
>Unfortunately, the Yiddish Book Center does not collect archival materials.
>  That job would best be left to the YIVO in New York.  I'd suggest you
>contact YIVO's new director, Dr. Carl Rheins; he may be able to help.
>
>Meanwhile, should you be able to identify a few "highlights" of the
>collection -- perhaps a script, old posters, tickets or other ephemera --
>we would try to find a way to exhibit them here as part of our overall
>exhibition on Yiddish theater.  Specific arrangements may be made with our
>bibliographer, Neil Zagorin, at nzagorin (at) bikher(dot)org(dot)
>
>Again, I wish you every success in finding the right home for the overall
>archive.  If I can help in any way please don't hesitate to let me know.
>
>Best wishes,
>Aaron Lansky
>
>cc: Nancy Sherman, Editor, Pakn Treger
>
>
>......................................
>Aaron Lansky, President
>Yiddish Book Center
>Amherst, MA 01002 USA
>Phone: 413-256-4900 x101
>Fax: 413-256-4700
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky [SMTP:reyzl (at) flash(dot)net]
>Sent:  Friday, January 07, 2000 7:55 AM
>To:    'Bloom'
>Cc:    'Aaron Lansky'
>Subject:       RE: Yiddish musical theater books
>
>I will forward your message to Aaron Lansky, but you should know that
>$100,000 is a bit steep for Mr. Rexite's services.  For the head of that
>theater department, the notes, instructions, and directions written into
>the original scripts has phenomenal value in studying how scenes in the
>theater were actually played.  She didn't think that $100,000 was so much.
>  There was a strong hint in her conversation that Brandeis was probably
>going to get it, while I would predict NYU.  But what do I know about
>these things.  From my point of view it should go to YIVO which has so many
>other critically important theater collections.
>
>cc to Aaron Lansky
>
>
>Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>From:  Trudi Goodman [SMTP:goobietheg (at) hotmail(dot)com]
>Sent:  Monday, January 10, 2000 4:12 PM
>To:  World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject:  RE: Yiddish Musical Theatre/Info. needed
>
>
>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
> >
> >
> >
> >----------
> >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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