[ha-Safran] Come hear our rare Yiddish Theater Songs: fall concerts, book, cds
New Yiddish theater music songbook and set of 3 cds View this email in your browser (http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=ed99308627e=358593cd7d) In Warsaw, Poland, between the World Wars, in a little shop in the flea market across from a used hardware store, Itzik Zhelonek bought and sold books and records. He also printed tiny books of lyrics of the most loved Yiddish theater songs of that time and place. He wrote: If you don't know the melodies, come to Itzik and he'll teach them to you. His beloved songs are droll, sly, sweet, and poignant, dealing with everything from Judaism itself to The Modern Woman to emigration to masquerade balls to the poverty of scholars and their families. The 230-page book contains the transliterated Yiddish lyrics with translations, melodies, chords, commentary, and sources. 1. Digital download ($9) 2. Paperback edition ($14 plus $3.60 shipping/handling USA only) 3. Paperback edition, international orders: direct from Amazon.com 4. Musicians' Edition, spiral bound, direct from Lulu.com To buy a copy, or more information, visit The Yiddish Emporium (http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=84710a335ee=358593cd7d) . My friends and I have also published three cds of the rarer songs from the collection, more than 60 delicious, droll, rarely-heard songs in total. Click on the links below the pictures to hear any of the songs you like, all the way through, for free. http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=ddb2de258ce=358593cd7d N (http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=9f5f5d661ce=358593cd7d) ERVEZ! Yiddish Songs from Warsaw Volume 3 (http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=be35b9e090e=358593cd7d) http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=aecd516a3ee=358593cd7d In Odess: Yiddish Songs from Warsaw Volume 1 (http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=c418be4a2ae=358593cd7d) http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=125753ffc5e=358593cd7d Lebedik Yankel: Yiddish Songs from Warsaw Volume 2 (http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=d0a4dc22e0e=358593cd7d) I'm looking for places to present Yiddish Music of the Jazz Age, either alone or with members of my band. We project subtitles on the wall so everybody gets the jokes in real time, and choruses are presented in transliterated Yiddish so any audience can sing along. If you know of a venue that might be interested please email me (j...@mappamundi.com) It would encourage me if you wanted to be in touch: ** Cabaret Warsaw (http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=ccefaa0cd8e=358593cd7d) ** Yiddish Theater Songs (http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=4888b50c74e=358593cd7d) ** Google+ (http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=a1bb6ec49ae=358593cd7d) ** The Yiddish Emporium (http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=d728c6154be=358593cd7d) Our mailing address is: Jane Peppler 5301 Cedronella Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA ** unsubscribe from this list (http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=ba27b7d7fbe=358593cd7dc=ed99308627) ** update subscription preferences (http://cabaretwarsaw.us4.list-manage.com/profile?u=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880id=ba27b7d7fbe=358593cd7d) Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletterutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=monkey_rewardsaid=1a3b408e804cdda99877e7880afl=1 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Finally the book is available in paperback: Yiddish Songs from Warsaw 1929-1934: The Itzik Zhelonek Collection
This 230-page book with texts in transliteration, translations, melodies, chords, commentary, and sources is now available as a digital download, as a full-size (8-1/2 x 11) paperback, and in Musicians' Edition with a coil binding. You can also buy a paperback of facsimiles of the original lyrics I worked from (in the Hebrew characters as Itzik Zhelonek printed them). http://yiddishemporium.com/yiddish-songs-from-warsaw-1929-1934.html Yiddish Songs from Warsaw 1929-1934: the Itsik Zhelonek Collection [image: Songbook: Yiddish Songs from Warsaw Poland]http://yiddishemporium.com/pics/yiddish-songs-warsaw-t.jpg In Warsaw, Poland, between the World Wars, in a little shop in the flea market across from a used hardware store, Itzik Zhelonek bought and sold books and records. He also printed tiny books of lyrics of the most loved Yiddish theater songs of that time and place. He wrote: If you don't know the melodies, come to Itzik and he'll teach them to you. The songs beloved by cosmopolitan Yiddish-speaking Jews before the Holocaust were sometimes frothy and sometimes profound, sometimes satirical and sometimes nostalgic. They were droll, sly, sweet, and poignant, dealing with everything from The Modern Woman to emigration to the poverty of scholars and their families. Jane Peppler found these booklets in the National Library of Israel and the Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad in Brooklyn (some had uncut pages - they'd never been read even once). She was struck by how many of the songs, the biggest hits of their day, were now completely unknown, snuffed out by the Holocaust along with the people who sang them and loved them. She decided to hunt down the melodies for the songs in Zhelonek's books (and the anonymous book *35 Newest Theater songs of 1929*). The melodies trickled in one by one, from Russia, France, Israel, Boca Raton, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Cambridge, Amherst, Winnipeg... they were found in sheet music archives, old 78s, and in the memories of people who were there. In the decades since World War II Yiddish has been associated with grim, sad songs. Perhaps enough time has passed now that we can enjoy Yiddish songs of the Jazz Age. In this 230-page book Peppler has set the newly found melodies with chords, transliterations, translations, commentary, and sources. It is available as a digital download, in a paperback edition, and in a musicians' edition with spiral binding. Three years in the making, the book contains sheet music and lyrics to wonderful songs chosen by record-store owner Icik Zielonek (the Polish spelling of his name) to promote his record selling business. He called them at that time *the newest, best songs of the Yiddish theater.* Some are still familiar and beloved, but most were lost to us until now, their droll, nostalgic, cosmopolitan spirit seemingly irrelevant to the post-Holocaust world. Now revived! *Click for the Yiddish Songs from Warsaw table of contents http://yiddishemporium.com/ysw.html* *Click for a Sample song sheet from Yiddish Songs from Warsaw http://yiddishemporium.com/sample-free-yiddish-sheet-music.html* *Click to read my article about the Zhelonek project in Afn Shvel:Nokhgeyendik dem shpur fun fargesener yidisher teater-muzik http://yiddishemporium.com/afn-shvel-artikl.html* __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
Re: [ha-Safran] A book I would like to publicize (Yiddish Songs from Warsaw 1929-1934: The Itzik Zhelonek Collection)
Hello Tamara, There are two cds and in a couple weeks there will be a third. People can listen to all the songs on the cds for free at the central site, http://yiddishemporium.com I will try to contact the Yiddish Book Center, thank you. Jane On 1 April 2014 13:53, Tamara Silberman tam2th...@yahoo.com wrote: Will you also be doing a recording and concerts? I believe the best way to get the word out is for people to hear this music. See if you can get a grant. Try calling the Yiddish Center in Amherst, MA for some suggestions. Best of Luck Tamara Silberman On Monday, March 31, 2014 7:07 PM, Jane Peppler jane.pepp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am an independent musician and author. I have spent three years finding and compiling the melodies to almost 120 songs chosen by Warsaw book and record-store owner Itzik Zhelonek as The Best and Newest Theater Songs of his time. He published the lyrics to the songs in 7 tiny booklets I found at the National Library in Jerusalem and at the Chabad library in Brooklyn. This seemed to me a wonderful primary source answering the question: what songs were people loving before the Holocaust brought an almost permanent end to jovial, droll, cosmopolitan Yiddish music? I'm currently doing the final edit on the book and it will be published in May. It will have the melodies, chords, transliterations, translations, notes on the songs and the singers, and information about the archives where the original sources I used can be found. I believe this book is unique. Many of these songs have, I'm quite sure, not been heard since before the War. What might be the best way for me to publicize this book to libraries? Thank you, Jane Peppler The book is already available (though before its last edit) as a pdf, see http://yiddishemporium.com/ the first item. You can see the table of contents there, too. __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] A book I would like to publicize (Yiddish Songs from Warsaw 1929-1934: The Itzik Zhelonek Collection)
Hello, I am an independent musician and author. I have spent three years finding and compiling the melodies to almost 120 songs chosen by Warsaw book and record-store owner Itzik Zhelonek as The Best and Newest Theater Songs of his time. He published the lyrics to the songs in 7 tiny booklets I found at the National Library in Jerusalem and at the Chabad library in Brooklyn. This seemed to me a wonderful primary source answering the question: what songs were people loving before the Holocaust brought an almost permanent end to jovial, droll, cosmopolitan Yiddish music? I'm currently doing the final edit on the book and it will be published in May. It will have the melodies, chords, transliterations, translations, notes on the songs and the singers, and information about the archives where the original sources I used can be found. I believe this book is unique. Many of these songs have, I'm quite sure, not been heard since before the War. What might be the best way for me to publicize this book to libraries? Thank you, Jane Peppler The book is already available (though before its last edit) as a pdf, see http://yiddishemporium.com the first item. You can see the table of contents there, too. __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
