Re: A Yiddish World Remembered

[Eliott Kahn <Elkahn...>]

We saw the same show and enjoyed it. It seemed to give a broad overview of 
shtetl life with some fascinating archival footage at the beginning.

It certainly wouldn't be for experts but we found it quite stimulating. The 
recollections of 
Yiddish life by survivors or emigres was not ground-breaking, but certainly a 
necessary historical document, as these folks will be dying off.

Eliott Kahn


At 10:37 AM 8/11/02 -0400, you wrote:
>My wife and I watched this program last night on WLIW (channel 21 in NY), 
>through the seemingly endless and repetitive hard sells for subscribers, which 
>crudely played on Jewish hopes and fears.  That certainly did not improve the 
>experience.
> 
>We thought the program itself was a noble effort, but flawed - perhaps by the 
>maker's relative inexperience in documentaries.  Ther interview with him 
>suggested that he moved into this field from making ads and news videos.
> 
>We thought the program was disjointed.  There was no recognizable plan on how 
>to cover a very large subject, so it jumped from topic to topic, seemingly at 
>random.
> 
>The music was almost entirely background, and mostly from a single CD.
> 
>Sadly,
>Marvin Margoshes  
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <mailto:sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net>Sandra Layman 
>To: <mailto:jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>World music from a Jewish slant 
>Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 4:27 AM 
>Subject: Re: A Yiddish World Remembered
>
>There are a couple of articles about this program at 
><http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.08.09/fast3.html>http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.08.09/fast3.html
> 
>and 
><http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?strwebhead=PBS+special+looks+at+Yiddish+world&intcategoryid=5>http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?strwebhead=PBS+special+looks+at+Yiddish+world&intcategoryid=5
> 
>  
>  
>For anyone in Seattle: KCTS (our local PBS station) will *not* be broadcasting 
>this program. Write or call them if you're interested in ever seeing the film! 
>(See further below.) 
>  
>By the way, does anyone on the list know if any contemporary or recent klezmer 
>music was used on the soundtrack for this program? I ask partly because a 
>friend and I were actually hired (for a token amount) by the producer to play 
>a couple of minutes of music for the opening sequence. However, that was 
>before the producer got permission to use the original Abe & Sylvia Schwartz 
>recording, which is what he'd wanted all along. Oh, well... (I still am fuzzy 
>on why someone would need to get permission to use a recording which should be 
>public domain by now, according to an intellectual-property lawyer I know, but 
>that's another subject.) 
>  
>- Sandra 
><http://www.sandralayman.com>www.sandralayman.com 
>  
>  
>----[forwarded]----- 
>From: "Drewes, Rebecca" <<mailto:RDrewes (at) kcts(dot)org>RDrewes (at) 
>kcts(dot)org> 
>To: "<mailto:'sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net'>'sandralayman (at) 
>earthlink(dot)net'" <<mailto:sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net>sandralayman 
>(at) earthlink(dot)net> 
>Subject: RE: VIEWER E-MAIL FROM WEB - "A Yiddish World Remembered" 
>Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 16:27:06 -0700 
>  
>Thank you for your interest in KCTS, the Public Network, and especially in 
>"A Yiddish World Remembered." 
>  
>This program is not scheduled to air anytime in the near future.  I will 
>forward a request that this program be aired on to our programming 
>department, which relies on viewer input when making future programming 
>decisions. 
>  
>Thank you for writing. 
>  
>Best regards, 
>  
>Rebecca Drewes 
>Viewer Services Representativee 
>  
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: <mailto:sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net>sandralayman (at) 
>earthlink(dot)net [mailto:sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net] 
>Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 1:11 AM 
>To: <mailto:viewer (at) kcts(dot)org>viewer (at) kcts(dot)org 
>Subject: VIEWER E-MAIL FROM WEB - "A Yiddish World Remembered" 
>  
>  
>  
>VIEWER E-MAIL FROM WEB 
>Subject: "A Yiddish World Remembered" 
>From: <mailto:sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net>sandralayman (at) 
>earthlink(dot)net 
>Message: Please tell me when you'll be airing the one-hour PBS special 
>called "A Yiddish World Remembered." I couldn't find it doing a search for 
>"yiddish," and yet nationally it's airing on Aug. 14. 
>  
>Thanks very much for your assistance, 
>Sandra 
>  
>  
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <mailto:l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>Lori Cahan-Simon 
>To: <mailto:jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>World music from a Jewish slant 
>Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 7:07 AM 
>Subject: A Yiddish World Remembered 

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