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Yiddish songs from Warsaw 1920-1934 : the Itzik Zhelonek collection

Title
Yiddish songs from Warsaw 1920-1934 : the Itzik Zhelonek collection / transcribed & annotated by Jane Pepper.
Publication
Chapel Hill, NC : Skylark Productions, [2014]

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Notated musicUse in library *PVO 14-242Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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Additional Authors
  • Zsheloneḳ, Yitsḥaḳ
  • Peppler, Jane
Description
1 score (227 pages); 28 cm
Summary
"126 Yiddish songs chosen as the biggest theater hits of 1933-1934 by book and record-store owner Itzik Zhelonek of Warsaw, Poland (his store was in the flea market across from the "used iron" store) or appearing in the "35 newest theater songs from Azazel and Sambatiyon" collection of 1929. Azazel and Sambatiyon were the swingingest night spots of Warsaw, serving up "kleynkunst"--miniature theater--monologues, spoofs, and of course delicious songs--from earnest and nostalgic to droll and cosmopolitan. It was music of the Jazz Age, but theater-goers also demanded some old favorites. [The author] spent three years finding and transcribing the melodies for these wonderful songs which have mostly been lost since the Holocaust expunged joy and frivolity from Yiddish culture. The book has tunes, chords, transliterations, translations, commentary, and sources."--
Alternative Title
  • Itzik Zhelonek collection
  • Yiddish theater music from Poland
Subjects
Note
  • Includes introduction in English.
Language (note)
  • Yiddish (in transliteration) and English.
Call Number
*PVO 14-242
ISBN
  • 0981811590
  • 9780981811598
OCLC
879579815
Title
Yiddish songs from Warsaw 1920-1934 : the Itzik Zhelonek collection / transcribed & annotated by Jane Pepper.
Publisher
Chapel Hill, NC : Skylark Productions, [2014]
Type of Content
notated music
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Language
Yiddish (in transliteration) and English.
Added Author
Zsheloneḳ, Yitsḥaḳ, curator.
Peppler, Jane, compiler.
Running Title
Yiddish theater music from Poland
Research Call Number
*PVO 14-242
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