{"id":6737,"date":"2011-12-21T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=6737"},"modified":"2012-03-26T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T21:18:12","slug":"the-jewish-fake-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/21\/the-jewish-fake-book\/","title":{"rendered":"THE JEWISH FAKE BOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It wouldn\u2019t cost<\/strong><\/span> much for me to open a klezmer store.\u00a0 I have several vacant storefronts.<\/p>\n

I could put my store — call it the Klezmer Shack — next to the Bass Shop.\u00a0 The Bass Shop doesn\u2019t sell basses, but string players brake for it anyway.\u00a0 The Bass Shop is a bait and tackle store.<\/p>\n

Some of my\u00a0 merchandise:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Jewish Fake Book<\/em> by Velvet Pasternak. <\/em> Useful for anybody who wants to pass as a Jew.\u00a0 You’ll learn your way around seltzer and freylekhs<\/em> (horas).\u00a0 Plus you’ll learn the Hebrew lyrics to\u00a0 \u201cJerusalem of Gold\u201d\u00a0 and “Bashana Haba’a.”<\/p>\n

Yiddishe Cup<\/strong><\/span> latkes.<\/p>\n

Dave Tarras\u2019 Freilachs, Bulgars, Horas —<\/em> 22 clarinet tunes, handwritten by the master himself.\u00a0 <\/em>I got my copy in Delray Beach, Florida, from the widow of Harold Branch, the late New York bandleader.<\/p>\n

Irwin Weinberger\u2019s autoharp.\u00a0 Please buy it!\u00a0 (Irwin is Yiddishe Cup\u2019s singer.)<\/p>\n

Harold Branch\u2019s Club Date Handbook<\/em>. \u00a0 You’ll learn what to play when the caterer wheels in the Viennese dessert cart at a 1968 New York bar mitzvah party.\u00a0\u00a0 For the flaming jubilee, play \u201cFuniculi, Funicula.\u201d \u00a0 (For the main course — the roast beef — play \u201cI\u2019m an Old Cowhand.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Clarinet neck<\/strong><\/span> straps. \u00a0Hard to find.\u00a0 We have them.<\/p>\n

Clarinet travel bags.\u00a0 Ours are imported from the Pilot truck stop, Lodi, Ohio.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Two Twistin The Freilach<\/em> LPs, 1961.\u00a0 Used.<\/p>\n

Seven Kleveland Klezmorim Sound of the World\u2019s Soul <\/em>LPs, <\/em>1985.\u00a0 Never opened.<\/p>\n

Klezmer gum.<\/p>\n

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Footnote:\u00a0 There\u00a0 is a Klezmer Shack<\/a> website,\u00a0 run by Ari Davidow, who is allowing me to use the name for my store, I think.<\/small>
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\nYiddishe Cup plays First Night Akron<\/span><\/a> (Ohio) 6:15 p.m. Sat., Dec. 31.<\/span>
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\nHere’s a video by Kasumi,\u00a0 who teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.\u00a0 She won a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship for her vid work.\u00a0 This video is Yiddishe Cup<\/em>.
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