RE: Purimshpil

[Jewish Music Institute <jewishmusic...>]

The Jewish Music Institute Library at London University is interested in 
collecting
current and not so current 'Purimshpils'.  So many communties write and perform 
really
hilarious shows, parodies and reviews, in the tradition of the purimshpil, and 
after one
parfromance they are usually lost.  The Doris and Bertie Black Library has a 
special
section for such shows, so if you know of any lurking forgotten on shelves or 
in attics,
do send them to us.  They might be fruitful sources of sociological and Jewish 
music
research for future generations.

Geraldine Auerbach
Jewish Music Institute
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Tel 020 8909 2445   Fax 020 8909 1030
E-mail jewishmusic (at) jmi(dot)org(dot)uk
Website www.jmi.org.uk


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org [mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) 
shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of
Itzik Gottesman
Sent: 06 April 2000 09:05
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: Re: Purimshpil

This is a big topic which a number of people have worked and do work on
(Shifre Epstein in the US, Jean Beaumgarten in Paris among others). For the
moment, here are the three purim shpiln that I can think of that are
published with music. There are many others published (in Yiddish) without
music.

1)"Akhashverush purim shpil" [in Yiddish] collected by A. Litvin,
Literarishe farlag, NY 1916

2) Shifre Epstein, "Danil-Shpil bakhasidut bobov" [Shifre's notes in
Hebrew, the text in Yiddish].Jerusalem 1998. (SHe made a video tape of this
performance)

3) Shmuel Lehman collected a purim shpil and included the music in "Bay
undz Yidn" (warsaw 1923).  The text is translated into English and analyzed
in Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "Contraband: Performance, Text and
Analysis of a Purim-shpil"  The Drama Review, Vol. 24, #3, Sept. 1980

4) In the YIVO collection "Yidisher folklor" edited by I.L Cahan, vilne,
1938, there are 16 purim shpiln with no music. However, if you read S.Z.
Pipe's notes at the end of the volume, he gives some references to the song
texts so one could reconstruct some of the melodies (several are by Zunser,
Goldfaden and Berl Broder).

- Itzik (PS - a cassette that I produced on Global Village 1986, Lifshe
Schaechter-Widman, "Az di furst avek", includes 2 short purim songs)



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