User talk:Max Sparber

Pepi Litman changes
Hi Max! Thanks for creating the Pepi Litman page! I wanted to let you know that I added some info & some references.

The Museum of Family History website is actually a series of very rough translations from the Yiddish LEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER. I have translations of the book itself, so I changed the citations to refer to the book rather than the website.

I also added some eyewitness accounts translated from the Leksikon, & from a review of a "Jewish Cabaret" by a British journalist visiting Galitsye.

There's a lot more to say about PL -- the researcher Michael Aylward is working on a complete discography, for one thing -- but I find Wikipedia editing to be a bit taxing so I will try to come back to the article later.

There's also an excellent musical compilation of artists from Gimpel's Yiddish theatre in Lvov (Lemberg) with very detailed liner notes about the theatre, where PL apparently starred. In Budapest, "di Peptsia" was not a nickname for PL but the name of a show she starred in & perhaps created; I think the title is a pun on her name, Pepi, & the word "Dispepsia." Shloyme Pryzament, who wrote some of PL's songs, is himself a fascinating figure. It would be great to upload audio links to some of the songs, like this one: http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/media.aspx?query=Dawynen&params=types%3Daud%2Cvid%7Csubtypes%3Doth2%2Chist%2Cyivo%2Csrec&perpage=20

And finally, New York public librarian Miryem-Khaye Segel (whom I cite) is working on a scholarly article about the Broderzingers, including PL.

That's all for now! Cheers, Nadnie (talk) 19:30, 6 May 2017 (UTC)