Fw: Klezmer and yizkor books (yizkor digest: April 22, 2003)

[Sandra Layman <sandralayman...>]

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> YIZKOR Digest for Tuesday, April 22, 2003.
> 
> 1. Klezmer and yizkor books
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> Subject: Klezmer and yizkor books
> From: Joyce Field <jfield (at) nlci(dot)com>
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:38:39 -0400
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> For those of you who love klezmer music, we have a treat for you.
> 
> In 2002 Yale Strom published "The Book of Klezmer: The history, the 
> music, the folklore from the 14th century to the 21st," which 
> includes an annotated bibliography of 250 yizkor books which have 
> extensive material on klezmer.  The chapter "Klezmer Zikhroynes in di 
> Yizker Bikher," pages 267-325,  contains names of many residents and 
> musicians in these towns, which will be of compelling genealogical 
> interest to our researchers.
> 
> Yale and his publisher, Yuval Taylor of A Capella, graciously offered 
> this material to the Yizkor Book Project, for which we are very 
> thankful.
> 
> Yale has written six books, produced four documentaries, including 
> "The Last Klezmer," and leads two klezmer bands.
> 
> The Appendix can be accessed in the Miscellaneous category at the 
> Yizkor Book Translation Page at 
> http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html or directly at 
> http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/klezmer/klezmer.html
> 
> Yale wrote in his introduction to this Appendix:
> 
> "What makes these books - in essence, compilations of oral histories 
> - unique is that they not only describe in detail the occupation and 
> eventual destruction of each Jewish community, but how complex, 
> interesting, and diverse Yiddish culture was. The author of each 
> article grew up in the city or town that the Yizker Bikh 
> memorializes. For klezmer enthusiasts and researchers, these 
> first-person accounts (some told to the author by family and 
> relatives) provide among the most accurate details available on the 
> attitude of others toward the klezmorim , their daily  lives, and 
> their professions in the shtetlekh of Central and Eastern  Europe."
> 
> We think you will find this compilation of immense interest.  It will 
> make your feet tap and your eyes tear.
> 
> Joyce Field
> Vice President, Research
> jfield (at) jewishgen(dot)org
> 
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