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"We have sent books to 67
major university libraries,"
Lansky said, including
libraries in the United States
and Canada, France, Den-
mark, Belgium, West Ger-
many, Poland, Austria and
Israel.
The newest development in
the center's program is the
taping of Yiddish
masterpieces.
Lansky said he and board
members asked Philip Stein,
chairman of the Institute of
Audio Research in Manhat-
tan, for help. Stein, a long-
time lover of the language,
donated space in his high-
technology recording studio
for the taping.
Several tapes of Yiddish
works were made in 1987,
"the first time that Yiddish
books were recorded profes-
sionally on tape in a
systematic way for general
distribution," Lansky said.
There were two cassettes of
stories originally produced,
one by Isaac Leib Peretz and
cne by Sholem Aleichem, and
Lansky said the experiment,
in which 1,000 tapes were
sold, "taught us there was a
much broader market then
we had originally an-
ticipated."
One group is the elderly
with fading eyesight, those
who are knowledgeable in
Yiddish but finding it in-
creasingly difficult to read.
A second group is college
youth, who are first learning
Yiddish in courses being of-
fered in a growing number of
American universities.
Then there are those Jews
who knew and spoke Yiddish
as children but who never
learned to read and write it,
and as adults, had lost touch
with the language.
Two veteran, Vilna-born ac-
tors — David Rogow, a master
of Sholem Aleichem, and Rita
Karin, who had performed on
the Yiddish stage in pre-
Hitler Europe — agreed to
join the taping program. Both
are in their 70s.
Two 90-minute cassettes
have been completed and are
ready for distribution. One is
"Lkoved Yontef ' (In Honor of
the Holidays), four holiday
stories by Sholem Aleichem.
The other is "The Best of
Avrom Reisen," a collection of
short stories read by the
American Yiddish actress
and radio personality Miriam
Kressyn.
In the planning stage is a
six-set tape, Aleichem's
"Gantz Tevye der Milchiger,"
the complete Tevye stories
which inspired "Fiddler on
the Roof," and "Medresh It-
zik," a collection of poems by
Itzik Manger.

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