Re: A QUERY

[wiener <wiener...>]

Yale's documentary "Carpati" is available on video.

Bob

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From: Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com <Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Sunday, June 18, 2000 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: A QUERY


>
>In a message dated 6/17/0 5:28:01 PM, meydele (at) ix(dot)netcom(dot)com 
>writes:
>
><< By coincidence, I came across this reference yesterday.  I myself
have not
>looked at book.
>A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia by David M.
>Crowe.  St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994.
> >>
>
>On Jews and Gypsies
>
>There is a wonderful recording, "Carpati - 50 Miles, 50 Years" by
Yale Strom
>and Zmiros. This is the soundtrack of the document chich doecumentaed
the
>relationship of the Jews and Gypsies in the Carpathian region before
WWII.
>The selections include Klezmer and Gypsie pieces, and between the
tunes,
>there are short quotes about the close relationship between the Jews
and
>Gypsies in either Yiddish , Hungarian, or Rom. Translations of the
comments
>are inluded in the booklet.
>
>Two quotes from the CD:
>
>"Jews and Gypsies were always together. Wherever I wnet through the
soviet
>union playin in Gypsy bands there was at least on Jewish musician."
>
>"We played at Jewish weddings and our family could live one week from
such a
>wedding. Now this is no use for our Gypsy music since the Jews left.
The
>Ukrainians absolutely don't appreciate our music." (In 1936, there
were a
>quarter of a million Jews in the Carpathian region, now there are
less than
>1,500).
>
>See this Cd onb our site at:
>www.hatikvahmusic.com/cgibin/browse.pl?action=search&search_for=Carpa
ti
>
>Theodore Bikel lived and traveled with Gypsies for an extented period
of time.
>
>Simon
>Hatikvah Music
>
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