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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.
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
was looking for traces of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society on jpress (historical NY mutual aid society for klezmer musicians) and coming up with nothing, but I did keep finding Arbeter Ring Musical Branch 615 ads & coverage in the late 1910s into the 1920s.👀 I don't completely understand its structure, did all A.R. branches also serve as mutual aid societies? Or is it possible this one was just a cultural org.?
#Yiddish #WorkersCircle #ArbeterRing #NYhistory #klezmer #MusicHistory
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
While going through my list of NY #klezmer names this week, I've been looking into the Axelrod family of musicians who were from Zolochiv and came to NYC around 1906.They mostly became members of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society which was a mutual aid society for klezmorim and other Jewish immigrant musicians in NY. Still trying to sort out how some seem to have moved a second time to Detroit and Chicago fairly early on.
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
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.
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.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zroXBV3Bmk
If you're from #NYC and/or a little abt #NYHistory, you'll appreciate this #MustWatchVideo from just before the primary.
#ZohranMamdani vs Liberals in rightwing clothing.
I'm going over all my research from NY in preparation for my lecture in a few weeks. feels like quite a daunting task at the moment😲 funny, of all the "immigrant Jewish musicians" I'm studying this is the only one who immigrated from Toronto to New York, not from Eastern Europe. although his parents were Polish Jews so it was probably an intermediate step for Manny's father on the road to a profitable music career in NY.
A thread of some photos from the Joseph and Lara Cherniavsky archival collection at YIVO. Russian Jewish musicians who were married & arrived in NYC around 1920, Lara was a pianist and arranger, and Joseph was a cellist, composer and bandleader. This seems to be backstage in the mid 1920s in Joseph's "Hasidic American Jazz Band" which was neither Hasidic nor Jazz, but was a vaudeville klezmer act featuring some of NY's finest.
#theatre #OldPhotos #klezmer #vaudeville #MusicHistory #NYhistory
looking up the Grupps in the 1910 census when Louis was only 20, you can see not only the whole musician family but two other musician families living in the same tenement (the Reichels and the Dorfmans)🕵️♂️ "Mollie Grupp" is the Mekhli Goyzman mentioned in the essay above.
(photo is not the exact building but same block, from NYPL: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-9583-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 )
#MusicHistory #Census #Genealogy #klezmer #EastVillage #NYHistory
Immerse in the enigmatic portraits of New York's House of Representatives from the 1870s at #Rijksmuseum. The mystery of their identities beckons art enthusiasts and history buffs alike. Who do you think these figures represent?
#ArtHistory #Rijksmuseum #NYHistory
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-F-2001-7-1129-96
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
one genre of advertisement I've come to appreciate in my research about old Jewish musicians in New York is the ubiquitous "Kontsert un Bal" (Concert and Ball) notices. Often held for charity, in the name of socialist organizations or landsmanshaftn (the Vinnitser one, the Minsker one, etc.). Often with hilariously literal transliteration of English place names. Most interesting for me are when they name the bandleader and give me a name to look up but they usually didn't.
#Yiddish #NYhistory
Taking a journey through time with Portretten van vier leden van het Lagerhuis van de staat New York, circa 1872-1882, #Rijksmuseum - a vivid reflection of New York's political antiquity. Who's your favourite historical figure?
#ArtHistory #Rijksmuseum #NYHistory #Political
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-F-2001-7-1129-96
`A letter written by Dutch merchant Peter Schaghen to directors of the Dutch East India Company stated that #Manhattan was purchased for "60 guilders worth of trade", an amount worth ~$1,143 U.S. dollars as of 2020`
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Minuit
#history #UShistory #americanHistory #NewYork #NYS #NYhistory #NY