RE: Yiddish Labor Songs...

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

Found this old unsent message in my computer.

It may be that the WC decided to put out the cassette version of the record 
when cassettes became the preferred mode.  But, knowing how things are done 
at the WC, I would bet that when the Bund applied for a grant from the 
Workmen's Circle's Zuckerman Fund to make the cassette version of the 
recording, the WC gave the money AND put their name on it, especially since 
they wanted the product to be sold in their store.   The WC, however, had 
nothing to do with the recording or the record or the product itself.  They 
like to do things like that with anything and everything that comes their 
way, legal or not, unless the producer makes a point of not allowing it. 
 Many grantees have had fights with them over this very issue.   My mother 
in law, the artist Tsirl Waletzky, had that problem with all the 30+ years 
worth of book illustrations she had made specifically for the WC.   She is 
the illustrator of all the Mlotek books and gives them a one time use of 
her works.  They like to use her works in whatever they put out, but the 
copyright belongs to her and not to them.   Since the NY Bund members and 
funders tend to belong to the WC, it may be that no one challenged this (or 
maybe they did, but it was too late to remove the label.)   Nevertheless, 
it was a Bund product.


Here is the record info:

Yiddish Songs of Work and Struggle
Jewish Students' Bund Production
Yiddish Youth Ensemble
Directed by Zalmen Mlotek
With Susan Finesilver, Betty Glaser, Judy Gottlieb, Khane Kliger, Moishe 
Mlotek, Moishe Rosenfeld, Dina Schwartzman, and Josh Waletzky
JS 11049

Reyzl



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From:  Susan Lerner [SMTP:meydele (at) ix(dot)netcom(dot)com]
Sent:  Thursday, February 17, 2000 8:37 PM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  Re: Yiddish Labor Songs...

I was just going on the info on the cassette which I have.  The cassette
itself says: "Yiddish Songs of Work and Struggle, Produced by the Education 
Department of the Workmen's Circle."    The front of the J Card says: "The
Workmen's Circle and the Bund Archive of the Jewish Labor Movement Present
The Yiddish Youth Ensemble", while the side carries the notation "W.C.8"
and the AR logo. I purchased it in the Workmen's Circle bookstore many
years ago.

Shira

At 05:44 PM 2/17/00 -0500, you wrote:

>In a message dated 2/17/00 9:17:54 PM, meydele (at) ix(dot)netcom(dot)com 
>writes:
>
><< The Workmen's Circle recording "Yiddish Songs of Work and Struggle"
>pretty much overlaps with the more recent "In Libshaft un In Gerangl" in
>terms of its songlist. >>
>
>It's not a Workmen's Circle recording.  It was produced by the Jewish 
Youth
>Bund in 1971.
>
>         Paula Teitelbaum
>



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