#nyhistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nyhistory, aggregated by home.social.
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my latest blog post, which feels kinda like a work in progress, but helped me organize some of my ideas about this somewhat cryptic klezmer's mutual aid society.
https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/12/28/some-thoughts-about-the-progressive-musical-benevolent-society/#klezmer #immigrationHistory #NYhistory #MutualAidHistory #MusicHistory #ResearchBlog
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wow, WWI registration cards of old musicians so often bring up interesting tidbits ... a Russian-born member of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society, Samuel Stromberg (1883–1952), worked at this long-demolished hotel for working women in 1918 (although by then it had been converted into a normal hotel).
https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2012/05/lost-1878-working-womens-hotel-park.html -
My latest blog post, where I looked at musicians and balls among Britshaner landsmanshaftn in New York.🤔💭
https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/08/23/music-and-britshaner-mutual-aid-societies-in-new-york-c-1905-45/#Moldova #Bessarabia #landsmanshaft #klezmer #MusicHistory #NYhistory #Yiddish
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Bit by bit I've been going through many of the things I've scanned and photographed during my research trip to NYC this past winter, and adding the names and context of musicians to my database, and figuring out who they were by looking in old newspapers and genealogy type records. Here's an interesting one that only appeared in one archival source (Philip Juvelier, c.1883–1956) made more curious by another ad I'll share in a later post.
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the same NYC.gov link above has some cool historic photos from c.1905, so a bit more than a decade before Nazer was employed there. great interior.
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Wow.. Shared by an accordionist friend. Putting aside the exoticising tone of the newsreel, this is a fascinating glimpse of Roma life in New York at the end of the 1930s. The accordionist is recognizable as Mishka Ziganoff, a Christian Roma klezmer musician & recording artist of the 1910s and 1920s. Too bad the audio quality is so bad.
#accordion #Roma #MusicHistory #OldNewYork #NYhistory #FolkMusic
https://youtu.be/jpZRQvDVBY8?si=kvNTSw3bu7fn4NnM