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I finally managed to get some of my June 2025 klezmer score orders from the LOC due to the diligent work of a Performing Arts librarian unconnected to my original request.
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I wrote a blog post about what I could find out about IJ Hochman...https://alte.klezmor.im/2023/08/28/who-was-israel-j-hochman/
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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.
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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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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.
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"In fact, my family, where we had I don't know how many we had in our family, musicians, now the youngsters, I only have one nephew who is still in the line, and one retired cousin who lives in Los Angeles, at times he plays a recording, or for a movie, or TV. But he's retired."as far as I got 🧵
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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.
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this family band gets a brief mention in the Rohatyn Yizkor book (in Hebrew) https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yizkor-books/yzk-nybc313962/amitay-mordekhai-sztokfisz-kehilat-rohatin-veha-sevivah-ir-be-hayyeha-uvi-khilyonahtranslated to English herehttps://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/rogatin/roh132.html#Page140as far as I can tell Jacob was the only son of this family to come to New York, or at least to become a musician there#klezmer #MusicHistory #Rohatyn

I finally managed to get some of my June 2025 klezmer score orders from the LOC due to the diligent work of a Performing Arts librarian unconnected to my original request.

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.

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.

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.