Velvel Pasternak

Velvel Pasternak

Velvel Pasternak is one of the world's foremost experts on Jewish music. He is an expert on the music of the Hasidic sect and probably the largest publisher of Jewish music anywhere, although he is quick to note that publishing Jewish music is a business that attracts few rivals. [cite news | url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70E1EF7395D0C718EDDAA0894D9484D81 | title = Long Islanders; A YOUTHFUL DECISION ALTERS A LIFE'S TONE | first = Lawrence | last = Van Gelder | date = 1981-03-22 | publisher = New York Times | section = 11 | page = 2 | accessdate = 2006-08-03 (summary only)]

The founder of Tara Publications, he has been responsible for the publication of 26 recordings and over 150 books of Jewish music since 1971, spanning the gamut of Israeli, Yiddish, Ladino, Cantorial, Hassidic and Holocaust Music. [cite web | url = http://rozhinke.org/2004faculty.html#Velvel | title = Velvel Pasternak | work = 2004 Rozhinke Faculty | accessdate = 2006-08-03 ] He is a regular lecturer on the Music of the Hassidim.

Published works

* "The Jewish Fake Book" (1997) [ISBN 0-933676-69-7]
* "Beyond Hava Nagila" (1999) [ISBN 0-933676-78-6]
* "The Jewish Music Companion" (2003) [ISBN 1-928918-24-7]
* "Songs Never Silenced--The Folk Music And Poetry of the Shoah" (2003) [ISBN 1-928918-26-3]

ee also

*Jewish music

References

External links

* [http://www.jewishmusic.com Tara Publications ]


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