#klezmer — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #klezmer, aggregated by home.social.
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finally finished my latest blog post which I've been working on for the last few weeks after I got interested in E 2nd Street and its klezmer connection.
I definitely went from "wow this is neat" to "WTF am I doing" over the past month, but I may as well document it🤪
https://alte.klezmor.im/2026/08/01/east-2nd-street-as-a-hub-of-new-york-klezmer/#LowerEastSide #MusicHistory #JewishMusic #klezmer #Yiddish #East2ndStreet
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finally finished my latest blog post which I've been working on for the last few weeks after I got interested in E 2nd Street and its klezmer connection.
I definitely went from "wow this is neat" to "WTF am I doing" over the past month, but I may as well document it🤪
https://alte.klezmor.im/2026/08/01/east-2nd-street-as-a-hub-of-new-york-klezmer/#LowerEastSide #MusicHistory #JewishMusic #klezmer #Yiddish #East2ndStreet
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אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״װעלאָסיפּיד ניגן״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון אַיזאַבעל פֿרײַ
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Bicycle Melody" performed by Isabel Frey #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay #Klezmer
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Transcribing part of a 1970s interview with Louis Grupp that Henry Sapoznik sent me last year, to include a quote or two from it in my upcoming blog post. Eventually I should ask his permission to transcribe and post the whole thing as it has so many fascinating historical vignettes. 🧵
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Transcribing part of a 1970s interview with Louis Grupp that Henry Sapoznik sent me last year, to include a quote or two from it in my upcoming blog post. Eventually I should ask his permission to transcribe and post the whole thing as it has so many fascinating historical vignettes. 🧵
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CW: AI slop / bizarre & some offensive parts
decided to check what has been churned out at the klezmer AI factory lately and wow at least this guy is trying something new 🥺 (an AI slop concert of a fake Hasidic metal band playing to an all Hasidic audience)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPfQKbKx5AE -
CW: AI slop / bizarre & some offensive parts
decided to check what has been churned out at the klezmer AI factory lately and wow at least this guy is trying something new 🥺 (an AI slop concert of a fake Hasidic metal band playing to an all Hasidic audience)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPfQKbKx5AE -
RE: https://klezmor.im/@carkner/116876668089661420
having been adding to this tally over morning coffee most days since this, and so far I'm at 165 Jewish musicians who lived along this strip ~1910-25, of which ~45 are known klezmer musicians and ~55 are Progressive Musical Benevolent Society members. (the organization's office was right here.) so really if there were likely many hundreds or low thousands of klezmer musicians (?) in NYC in that era, it's not at all the majority of them.
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RE: https://klezmor.im/@carkner/116876668089661420
having been adding to this tally over morning coffee most days since this, and so far I'm at 165 Jewish musicians who lived along this strip ~1910-25, of which ~45 are known klezmer musicians and ~55 are Progressive Musical Benevolent Society members. (the organization's office was right here.) so really if there were likely many hundreds or low thousands of klezmer musicians (?) in NYC in that era, it's not at all the majority of them.
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Loeffler has gone in a very different research direction lately but I definitely recommend his book "The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire" (2010)
https://jamesloeffler.com/the-most-musical-nation/ -
Loeffler has gone in a very different research direction lately but I definitely recommend his book "The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire" (2010)
https://jamesloeffler.com/the-most-musical-nation/ -
I forget where I posted a thread about him on here, and good luck finding it with mastodon search, but ... in my new research looking into more potential klezmer musicians living along East 2nd St in Manhattan in the 1910s-20s I found a guy called Harry Loigsaltz. After getting confused by multiple appearances in directories I realized there were two Harry Loigsaltzes ... one being Harry Lubin👇
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I forget where I posted a thread about him on here, and good luck finding it with mastodon search, but ... in my new research looking into more potential klezmer musicians living along East 2nd St in Manhattan in the 1910s-20s I found a guy called Harry Loigsaltz. After getting confused by multiple appearances in directories I realized there were two Harry Loigsaltzes ... one being Harry Lubin👇
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salute to them for the groan-worthy podcast name but here's my good friend Uri Schreter (lately of Queens U history department) talking about Jewish music on LP
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uri-schreter-reverberations-jewish-music-in-the-lp-era/id1079443054?i=1000773896428#JewishMusic #klezmer #Yiddish #LPs #MusicHistory #MusicIndustry
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salute to them for the groan-worthy podcast name but here's my good friend Uri Schreter (lately of Queens U history department) talking about Jewish music on LP
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uri-schreter-reverberations-jewish-music-in-the-lp-era/id1079443054?i=1000773896428#JewishMusic #klezmer #Yiddish #LPs #MusicHistory #MusicIndustry
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Two of the musicians from this East 2nd cohort have maddeningly variable spelling on their family name lol. Here is Harry (a drummer born 1906 in New York) on the column of donors to the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society plot erected in 1939. His father Morris (a trumpeter born around 1865 in Russia somewhere) also lived at various addresses along east 2nd before and after WWI. (1/2)
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Two of the musicians from this East 2nd cohort have maddeningly variable spelling on their family name lol. Here is Harry (a drummer born 1906 in New York) on the column of donors to the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society plot erected in 1939. His father Morris (a trumpeter born around 1865 in Russia somewhere) also lived at various addresses along east 2nd before and after WWI. (1/2)
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I'm going to make a video of a new song soon. Just a simple thing, political, of the moment. Solo. One camera, one take. What common mistakes have you noticed (besides using AI of course) that people make when they post their new songs? #music #youtube #peerTube #klezmer #folkmusic
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I'm going to make a video of a new song soon. Just a simple thing, political, of the moment. Solo. One camera, one take. What common mistakes have you noticed (besides using AI of course) that people make when they post their new songs? #music #youtube #peerTube #klezmer #folkmusic
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trying to just follow my curiosity for my summer research without any particular goal, and I'm intrigued how many klezmer musicians lived on this two block stretch of East 2nd St in Manhattan during the 1910s-20s. I've counted about 90 so far and now poking around in the 1915 census to see who else.
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trying to just follow my curiosity for my summer research without any particular goal, and I'm intrigued how many klezmer musicians lived on this two block stretch of East 2nd St in Manhattan during the 1910s-20s. I've counted about 90 so far and now poking around in the 1915 census to see who else.
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Salute to this new #Klezmer band with the clunkiest band name that for once isn't a portmanteau of klez and something random
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Salute to this new #Klezmer band with the clunkiest band name that for once isn't a portmanteau of klez and something random
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I'd be surprised if I didn't post this before somewhere, but I can't find it ... an ad in the Forverts in 1917 for a Bessarabier Arbeter Ring branch with the Fiedel Brothers Union Orchestra playing for it. Fred & his brothers were most likely the musicians.
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I'd be surprised if I didn't post this before somewhere, but I can't find it ... an ad in the Forverts in 1917 for a Bessarabier Arbeter Ring branch with the Fiedel Brothers Union Orchestra playing for it. Fred & his brothers were most likely the musicians.
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have posted many times about the Fiedels on here I'm sure. Fred/Frank (b.1898 in Edineț, Bessarabia) was a violinist and one of several klezmer musician sons of Isaac Fiedel active in NY. love the violin on the grave
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have posted many times about the Fiedels on here I'm sure. Fred/Frank (b.1898 in Edineț, Bessarabia) was a violinist and one of several klezmer musician sons of Isaac Fiedel active in NY. love the violin on the grave
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אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״תּורה״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון לוי פֿאַלקוביץ
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Torah" performed by Levi Falkowitz #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay #Klezmer
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The Industrial Workers of the World (#IWW) was founded June 27, 1905
in commemoration Seattle's #klezmer duo Brivele released a video of Michael Wex's translation of the ballad of Joe Hill
Accompanied by the artistry, vision, and research of puppeteer Yankl Krakovsky. Enjoy:
https://youtu.be/D4w4tzni_c0 -
The Industrial Workers of the World (#IWW) was founded June 27, 1905
in commemoration Seattle's #klezmer duo Brivele released a video of Michael Wex's translation of the ballad of Joe Hill
Accompanied by the artistry, vision, and research of puppeteer Yankl Krakovsky. Enjoy:
https://youtu.be/D4w4tzni_c0 -
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״חתן כלה מזל טוב״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון דײַװ טאַרראַס
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Choson Kallah Mazal Tov" performed by Dave Tarras #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay #Klezmer
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Benjamin Schuster (b.1881, Koretz, Volhynia, d.1947 Manhattan) a known but minor figure from old NY klezmer, a cornetist who played in orchestras like the Boiberiker Kapelle. I had some info on him but not his grave photo & now chuckling at movie still being in quotations in this 1920 census
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Benjamin Schuster (b.1881, Koretz, Volhynia, d.1947 Manhattan) a known but minor figure from old NY klezmer, a cornetist who played in orchestras like the Boiberiker Kapelle. I had some info on him but not his grave photo & now chuckling at movie still being in quotations in this 1920 census
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The Forward giving some coverage to Joseph Moskowitz and his newly uncovered archive today 😏
https://forward.com/culture/music/833363/joseph-moskowitz-archive-jewish-klezmer-cymbalom-library-of-congress/#klezmer #cimbalom #Romania #MusicHistory #LowerEastSide #JewishMusic
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The Forward giving some coverage to Joseph Moskowitz and his newly uncovered archive today 😏
https://forward.com/culture/music/833363/joseph-moskowitz-archive-jewish-klezmer-cymbalom-library-of-congress/#klezmer #cimbalom #Romania #MusicHistory #LowerEastSide #JewishMusic
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a crankie performance with live original klezmer music & amazing narration. I'm biased because I am friends with some of the musicians but the whole writing & illustration of this project is on a different level than the usual in this scene. Very thoughtful repurposing of folktales to tell a modern story of grappling with pain and expression.
they released the soundtrack as an album too.
https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/shterna-the-lost-voice -
a crankie performance with live original klezmer music & amazing narration. I'm biased because I am friends with some of the musicians but the whole writing & illustration of this project is on a different level than the usual in this scene. Very thoughtful repurposing of folktales to tell a modern story of grappling with pain and expression.
they released the soundtrack as an album too.
https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/shterna-the-lost-voice -
NY people, I highly recommend checking out Shterna and the Lost Voice at International Puppet Fringe Festival, 3 showings at Teatro Latea (107 Suffolk St) on August 13, 15 and 16.
https://ci.ovationtix.com/27335/production/1280062 -
NY people, I highly recommend checking out Shterna and the Lost Voice at International Puppet Fringe Festival, 3 showings at Teatro Latea (107 Suffolk St) on August 13, 15 and 16.
https://ci.ovationtix.com/27335/production/1280062 -
אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״הײַסער בולגאַר״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון יצחק פּערלמאַן
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Haysar Bulgar" performed by Yitzchak Perlman and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay #Klezmer
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אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״הײַסער בולגאַר״ אַױפֿגעפֿירט פֿון יצחק פּערלמאַן
Yiddish Song of the Day: "Haysar Bulgar" performed by Yitzchak Perlman and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay #Klezmer
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getting the grave for this Sam Altman will hopefully clear things up: aside from the modern tech guy, I have about 5 different old NYC musician Sam Altmans in my database and I'm not sure which one is the PMBS member. it's still not immediately obvious as birth/death dates are imprecise everywhere.🥺
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I had a dream that a sarcastic boomer guy in Facebook DMs was tantalizing me with snippets—but denying me actual access—to the musical manuscripts of a New York klezmer dude which he had in his possession. A scenario I have actually been through a few times now, in both benign and obnoxious versions📜👀