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I can tell from his burial records that he was a member of the Kolomear Friends Association (a landsmanshaft), which I actually photographed a bunch of their materials at YIVO last year. And indeed his name and his relative Herman's are in the member list, but sadly no other mention.

photo of part of a page with a list of alphabetized names in English and text in Yiddish at the top (25th Jubelium Kolomear Friends Association). we can see names from A to G including Ben Dauber and Herman Dauber.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 1h

I find interesting old NY musicians by doing a strict search for their hometown+musician in NY records, and here I found this guy from Kolomyya (then in Galicia, today Ukraine), Benjamin Dauber (1883–1970), cornet/trumpet player, bandleader, restaurateur, later life insurance salesman🕵️

black and white photo of a clean shaven man with slicked back grey hair looking slightly to one side. underneath is written in pen Benny Dauber, 1956

scan of an old WWI Registration Card filled out by hand for Benjamin Dauber of 145 W. 22 Street NY City,, 35 years old. Present Occupation Musician & Restaurant Keeper, Own Employ.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 03/10/2026

There was an early voting location for the municipal election across from Templeton Pool so I voted after swimming 🤪💦 I basically kept to the VDLC line with a substitution here or there vdlc.ca/vdlc-endorse...

Selfie of a guy with an "I voted" sticker on his shirt standing below a VOTING PLACE sign

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 30/09/2026

Salute to this shuttered store on Fraser Street in Vancouver with its sign

Photo looking up at part of a sign above a storefront that says
4. Medicine Stuff
5. Beverage Items
6. Chocolate Items
And part of a phone number below

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 30/09/2026

Rathaus also wrote a kind of retrospective about his uncle a year after his death in a Berlin Jewish newspaper. So far it hits the same points as a lot of the Yiddish-language biographical mentions and I suspect they were drawing on it. sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/cm/periodica...

screenshot of the opening paragraph of an old German-language newspaper article titled Ein Musikant Gottes - Chune Wolfsthal zum Gedächtnis
about a musician born in Galicia

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 28/09/2026

a lot of the digitized performance scores have the stamp of the theatre and director on the front covers, I think I posted about this when the YIVO Vilna collection was first put online a few years ago... this is the cover label of one of the scores from the same operetta

detail of an old sticker on something that has handwritten on it "Tochter Jerusalaim, Violino 1mo" and it has been stamped with a round stamp that says on it, Dyrektor TEATER ZHIDOWSKI, NORBERT CLIMER

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 28/09/2026

poking around in the digitized Wolfsthal scores in YIVO's collection now that I'm back in Vancouver, and some incomplete operettas only have 2 instruments but others have 12+ like this percussion score from Bas Yerushalaim, originally written in 1900. so cool! archives.cjh.org/repositories...

image of part of a page of handwritten musical scores showing six partial lines of percussion notation

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 26/09/2026

found a photo of Mr Wolfsthal in Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater, pretty grainy but will definitely do for now

grainy black and white photo of an old timey man from the turn of the 20th century, with facial hair and short hair parted in the middle

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 24/09/2026

Enjoyed the talk at Vancouver Public Library last night with local writer @bychrischeung.bsky.social promoting his new book Very Vancouver. The book goes into vignettes of working class food culture and lives around the city. Look forward to reading the book sometime. ecwpress.com/products/ver...

Photo of a man on a stage seated and speaking into a microphone, a woman seated across is listening . There is a Vancouver public library banner and some potted plants, and a crowd in the foreground

Photo of a man on a stage seated and speaking into a microphone, a woman seated across is listening

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 23/09/2026

for readers of German, he gets about a page-long biography in Joachim Stutschewsky's Jüdische Spielleute („Klezmorim“), originally published in Hebrew translation in 1959 and only finally published in German in 2019 by Harrassowitz.

text in German:
Auch die Wolfstahls gehörten zu den angesehensten Musikern Lembergs. Der Vater
selbst war ein Chasan (Kantor); er hatte fünf Söhne, alle widmeten sich der Musik und

waren in ganz Galizien bekannt. Der Populärste unter ihnen war entschieden Chune Wolf-
stahl (1853–1925). Ursprünglich spielte er Cello, wurde jedoch sehr bald ein gefragter

Komponist. Schon in seinen jungen Jahren, im Geburtsstädtchen Tismeniz (nicht weit von
Stanislav) spielte er in der dortigen Klezmerkapelle und brachte ihnen oft neue, eigene
„Sticklach“ (Stückchen), frische Kompositionen zum Vorspielen. Er übersiedelte nach
Tarnopol (zwischen Brod und Podwolotschisk)74, gründete hier ein eigenes Ensemble, die

„Brüder Wolfstahl“. Jetzt ging er über Dörfer, Städtchen und größere Städte. Überall mach-
ten sie Station, spielten auf jüdischen Hochzeiten, nichtjüdischen Bällen, gaben Chanukah-
Konzerte in den Synagogen. Ein überwiegender Teil ihres Repertoires bestand aus Chunes

Kompositionen. Die musikalischen Einfälle flogen ihm nur so zu und er war unermüdlich

im Aufschreiben und Ausfeilen von neuen Stücken. Viele populäre Melodien, die als Volks-
lieder gesungen werden (durch Abschriften und in mündlicher Übertragung gelangten

seine Werke und Melodien nach Deutschland, Österreich und Ungarn) dürften von Chune
Wolfstahl stammen. Der bekannte Dirigent und Leiter des Lemberger Jiddischen Theaters
Gimpel lud ihn 1889 ein, mit zur Eröffnungsvorstellung mit Goldfadens „Schulamith“75 zu

text in German:
kommen. Diese Aufführung übte auf Chune einen so tiefen und unauslöschlichen Ein-
druck aus, dass er auf der Stelle beschloss, sich dem jiddischen Theater zu widmen. Seiner

ersten Operette „Der Tempel regiert“ (1900, Libretto von Mosche Schor) folgten im
Verlauf der Jahre eine lange Reihe abendfüllender Bühnenwerke, die Chunes Namen als
jüdischen Theaterkomponisten weit über die Grenzen Galiziens und Polens begründeten.

In der jiddischen Theaterwelt wurde er hauptsächlich für sein „Bath Jeruschalaim“ (Toch-
ter Jerusalems) und das Lied „Freitag zur Nacht“ geschätzt. (In Budapest, im Verlaufe von

sechs Monaten, führte er „Tochter Jerusalems“ 90 Mal auf!) Trotz seines umfang- und
einfallsreichen Schaffens lebte er in äußerster Armut und musste nicht selten hungern. Die
Lieder und Couplets aus seinen Operetten fanden den Weg sogar nach Amerika und
wurden von dortigen jüdischen Komponisten in ihren Operetten verwendet und schamlos
als ihre eigene Musik ausgegeben. Während Chune in Lemberg in elenden Verhältnissen
eine armselige Existenz führte, verdienten in Amerika Komponisten und Sänger mit seinen
Melodien eine Menge Geld. Dies gehörte zu den vielen Wahrscheinlichkeiten und
Unwahrscheinlichkeiten in Chune Wolfstahls Leben, einem typisch klezmerischen
Schicksal jener Epoche.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 22/09/2026

half the pop culture nitpicking posts recommended to me by the reddit algorithm—Marvel, Star Trek, Star Wars, Silo,—are crap like this old simpsons gag was parodying. yes, heroes have plot armour, things are illogical because it's more exciting, the writer did not care how the tech would work IRL🤷‍♂️

screengrab from The simpsons showing Xena Warrior Princess speaking at a podium. the subtitle says "Well, whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it."

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 21/09/2026

The progression of this local "class warrior" influencer guy who signed on to support the farthest right party in the election and now comments stuff like this Yes, to be a leftist you may be a poor nobody without a trust fund or incoming inheritance, is that supposed to be a bad thing?

Screenshot of a hidden Instagram comment by Uncouver

"Is it foriall OneCity candidates are just adult children who have been disinherited?"

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 21/09/2026

a rare Ladino-language ad for these kinds of restaurants from La Vara, June 1937. (probably not so rare if I was searching Ladino keywords instead of "Roumanian".) Trying to sound out the names of the musicians being listed and none are ringing a bell, maybe written differently in Ladino..

an old newspaper advertisement in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) for Roumanian Pavilion restaurant at 36 Rivington St., New York.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 21/09/2026

of all the ads for Yiddish plays I've come across in my research this is truly one of the dumbest lol (Yossel and his Wives by Skulnik and Rumshinsky)

part of an old newspaper advertisement in Yiddish for a play titled "Yosl mit zayne Vayber" (Joseph and his wives) with a guy in a hat running away from a crowd of cartoon women, put on by Menashe Skulnik and Joseph Rumshinsky

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 21/09/2026

love when old timey New York English creeps into Yiddish spelling lol. ad for the same Kirshner's restaurant 6 years later than the one at the top of the thread.

an and mostly in Yiddish for Kirschner's Roumanian Restaurant in the Bronx. the name in Yiddish at the top is written in Yiddish like "Koyrshners"

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 20/09/2026

Grand (re)opening of such a restaurant on Allen street which was owned by Thomashefsky earlier on. With entertainment Jack Boogich (1889–1950, violinist born in Iași to the Bughici fam.), John Stein (?) and Meyer Libavits (probably Max Leibowitz, 1884–1942, well-known klezmer violinist born in Iași)

large ad in Yiddish and a bit of English about the grand opening of Roumanian Village Restaurant and Broilings, 181 Allen Street. in the middle are photos of three musicians, Jack Stein, Jack Boogich and Meyer Libovitz. the paragraphs in Yiddish are mainly boasting about the food and entertainment that will be offered at the restaurant.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 20/09/2026

speaking of Moskowitz, I'm not sure how many people have read it, but his handwritten memoir (mostly about womanizing and the restaurant biz) was found by his family lately and translated into English by Craig Packard: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

scan of part of a piece of paper on Michel's letterhead and handwritten content in Romanian about the New York restaurant business

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 20/09/2026

"our splendid orchestra, together with our singer, entertain and sing for you the best Jewish, Russian and English songs ... a splendid floor to dance, if you want." this place is an example of how they changed hands, at various times in the 20s this was Moskowitz's, Jurin's, or Hechter's place

large newspaper advertisement with text almost entirely in Yiddish for Little Roumanian Rendezvous restaurant 76 2nd Avenue. there are paragraphs about the culinary and musical offerings, etc.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 20/09/2026

for this one I appreciate how the restaurant owner hired his child to illustrate his establishment (taken from a much larger and otherwise boring ad for Glückstern's Roumanian Restaurant on Delancey Street, one of the longer lasting and fancier ones

line drawing of a scene in a restaurant with a man in a suit standing behind the counter and three empty tables in the foreground

primitive line drawing of a restaurant facade with the sign GLUCKSTERN'S ROUMANIAN RESTAURANT above. there is printed text in yiddish above and below the drawing, avertising the same restaurant which is at 135 Delancey Street

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 20/09/2026

this ad had a term I wasn't familiar with בראטערײ brateray or "broilery"? not in any of my dictionaries and has but 1 hit in Jochre so I am assuming it was this restaurant owner's neologism or a local term equivalent to Roumanian Broilings always used in the English ads for these restaurants

a small advertisement in Yiddish and a bit of English for the Roumanian Inn Restaurant, 44 Avenue A. there are a few line of text describing what the restaurant offers

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 20/09/2026

Was poking around on jpress for ads for old Jewish-Romanian restaurants in NY last night (once popular type with live klezmer/ Romanian music) and among all the dozens of places I found "my" restaurant (my name was 'originally' Kirchner, yes it's a different name) Morgn Freiheit, 17 Nov 1928

old newspaper ad mostly in Yiddish and partly in English fro Kirschner's Bronx Roumanian Restaurant. it gives the address 1403 Wilkins in the Bronx and various information about services.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 19/09/2026

I forget if I posted this last year but, lol, great vegetarian restaurant name from this NYPL microfilm (from a Noworadomsker Society anniversary journal, NYC, 1935) (I know a dairy restaurant is not exactly the same as a vegetarian restaurant, but pretty much)

a small advertisement from an old microfilm of a publication

FLEISCHACKER'S DAIRY
900 JENNINGS STREET
Bronx, N.Y.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 18/09/2026

I forget how this menu got on my google drive but yes researching some of these dishes may contribute to that.

part of an old scanned menu listing old fashioned Romanian Jewish food, meats, potatoes etc.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 16/09/2026

interesting, the family of a grandkid of Greenberg wrote to me on IG asking me what else I know about him and sent me this photo they found in a box

black and white (sepia) photo of a man playing a cimbalom with an american flag behind him and a restaurant table in the foreground

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 16/09/2026

A lesser known member of this Galician klezmer family in NYC, who were mainly from Skalat, although Jacob here (1881–1938) seems to have been born in Lviv. I'm not clear on his relation to the more famous bandleader Sigmund Goldring (1888–1947) who appears in a lot more klezmer sources in NY.

photo of a grave for Jacob Goldring, died Nov 11 1938, age 55. Avram Yakov b'r Zalman Tsvi. the grave has a star of david on the upper part along with some floral bas-reliefs.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 15/09/2026

another good 'un is this patriarch of a Bessarabian/Moldovan klezmer family in New York the Fiedels. Isaac (c.1857–1925) was a clarinet player and his most famous son was the cornetist Alex Fiedel, but he had several other sons and grandsons who were klezmorim in NYC.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 15/09/2026

love this grave and the inset photo of Morris Rothfarb (1881–1927), a trumpet player from Romanov, Russian Empire (I'm assuming the one in Volhynia but not positive). brother of violinist Harry Rothfarb (1892–19??).

photo of a grave for Morris Rothfarb died July 28 1927, 51 years old. Moishe Leib b'r Shlomo Zalman. there is an interesting leafy and curtain design on the upper part of the grave with a photo of the main inset in the middle top.

closeup of an inset photo on a grave face of an old timey man in a fancy suit and bowtie. the glass on the photo is a bit cracked and there is moss around the photo.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 15/09/2026

I quite like this grave, I haven't found much about Jacob Berkow/Burcow just yet, aside from being a bass player born in Russia, and that his son Louis Berkow was also a PMBS member.

photo of a very tall grave for Jacob Burkow which incorporates various geometric and abstract floral designs in the face. died Feb 9 1939, Age 51, Yakob b'r Joel.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 15/09/2026

Benny Rapfogel (1875–1960), a Galicia-born bass player and probably klezmer musician, brother of violinist Abraham who I've posted about before. one of my goals to unstick my being blacklisted from the Library of Congress digitization services is to get Abraham's compositions from in there...

photo of a grave in a crowded cemetery with Jewish and leafy designs on the face of the grave.
Benjamin Rapfogel (1875-1960) Beril b'r Yakov
and Bertha Rapfogel (1875-1947) Beila bat r. Itzhok

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 15/09/2026

Horn of Africa on Rideau Street in Ottawa, it wasn't the best Ethiopian restaurant in town by any stretch, but it was a great hangout spot. I worked across the street and ate their $7 vegetarian platter twice a week for years🥺

photo of a restaurant which is called The Horn of Africa. It's in a standalone brick house with a porch patio on the front.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 15/09/2026

interesting, from the Zolochiv Yizkor book. Azriel's wife (see above) was called Malkah/Mollie and did go to America but some of the other info doesn't line up. I wonder what the relation was see translation: www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Zoloc...

scan of a page from a book with text in Hebrew , translation and link to original are in the post. there is a grainy black and white photo of an old woman seated in a chair wearing fancy clothes

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 15/09/2026

I had a great time at this back in February & March in Montreal. Definitely recommend: "Submit a Proposal for the Yiddish Culture Jam Participant-led Workshop Series [...] These can be in any discipline and on any topic related to the focus areas of the winter session" klezkanada.org/events/yiddi...

image of an online post with a leafy motif and an inset photo of an accordion.
YIDDISH CULTURE JAM
FEBRUARY 25-28, 2027
Do you want to share your skills, knowledge,
and passion for Yiddishkayt? Submit
a proposal to the Yiddish Culture Jam
Participant-led Workshop Series
LEARN MORE AND SUBMIT YOUR IDEAS AT
KLEZKANADA.ORG/EVENTS/YIDDISH-CULTURE-JAM

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 13/09/2026

the father, Mendel, lived at 257 East 3rd in NY during WWI so I can add him to my growing list of klezmer musicians who lived within a block of East 2nd Street🥸before long he was living in Baltimore with his son

part of an old scanned form filled out by hand, a DECLARATION OF INTENTION form by Mendel Klasmer, Age 61, Musician, born in Galicia Austria 15 Oct 1854, living at 257 E 3rd.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 13/09/2026

This was his father Mendel Klasmer (1856–1920) who is mentioned as one of the two brothers who were star musicians in Horodenka and were traveling back and forth to the US. He did live in New York for a time and was in the union there so he's more in my research project than his son.

photo of a fairly simple grave in a cemetery which says
FATHER
MENDEL KLASMER
AUG 31, 1920
AGED 65 YEARS
MENACHEM MENDEL B'R CHAIM

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 12/09/2026

There are actually two clips in this movie in two different Romanian Jewish restaurants, whadda treat.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 12/09/2026

The clip in question from Der Lebediker Yusem by Joseph Seiden (1939), with an uncredited Jewish-Romanian band including almost certainly Joseph Moskowitz

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 10/09/2026

Anyhow, this 'zhok' composition in Joseph Moskowitz's papers (see www.josephmoskowitz.org/about) was almost certainly by David Himmelbrand. He had another klezmer Hymie Millrad sign his naturalization petition, who also has compositions in Moskowitz's collection, and ...

photo of a messy page of handwritten music in 6/8 time titled Hora by Himelbrand.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 10/09/2026

RS with your home river the Nation River in Chesterville ON, my great grandparents ran a mill here. I grew up closer to the East Castor river, which branches off of it, but it's barely a stream.

photo of a small river in a town with a dock in the foreground and some buildings and a bridge in the distance

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 10/09/2026

people were acting annoying at the previous Bundist Literary Evening and Concert (Forverts, Jan 5 1906) "not later than Shabbos evening, 8 o'clock; at the same time we ask everyone, that if they come later and they can't get in, they don't blame us like last time"

snippet of an old newspaper blurb in yiddish

בונדיסטען אויפמערקזאַם !

מיט בעטען אַללעמען, אז מען זאָל קומען צום ליטערארישען אבענד און קאָנצערט פון דיא באארד אוו דעלעג. פון דיא בונדיסטישע ארג. אין 272 איסט בראדוויי, ניט' שפעטער וויא שבת אבענד, 8 אוהר, אין דער זעל־ בער צייט בעטען מיר דיא אַלע, וועל־ בע עס וועלען קומען שפעטער און זיין וועלען ניט קענען אריינקומען, זאָלען זיי אונז ניט בעשולדיגען וויא דעם ערשטען מאָהל.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 07/09/2026

oh in poking around seeing if I could find any other ads for Ausfresser playing Obertiner events, I found this blurb about the sale of the building at 193 E. 2nd to their congregation, which actually took place after the PMBS was already in that building for a few years...

screenshot of a newspaper blurb in Yiddish detailing the sale of 193 East 2nd Street, New York, to the Obertiner Chevrah

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 07/09/2026

great cover, found by chance on @archive.org while doing klezmer research.. Brooklyn Technical High School's Mathematics Student Vol. 17 No. 1, June 1948. Covering such topics as The Pentagon and When Algebra Fails. archive.org/details/broo...

a hand-drawn magazine cover Math Student, June 48 showing a line drawing of a boy's face with a compass and graphing paper floating in front of him, and the silhouette of a building

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 07/09/2026

mostly putting aside this family for now, but I'll also mention that Max had a brother in NY, barber Gustave (Gershon) Ausfresser (c1879–1956), born in Horodenka. & Ausfressers were busy in Obertiner congregations/societies, see the contact info in that list www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/...

old black and white street level photo of a New York sidewalk with a man walking by. in the middle of the frame is a small synagogue entrance with the name in Yiddish, in the foreground is a placard with the numbers 397-28 M

five paragraphs of text in Yiddish about Obertiner societies in New York, full text is OCR'd at the link in the post.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 06/09/2026

this is how Max got on my radar last year from this Obertiner landsmanshaft banquet journal in 1936 (he was a member), microfilm from NYPL. At the time when he was a flautist I wrote to my friend Adrianne Greenbaum master of all things klezmer flute, but while she laughed she hadn't heard of him🕵️

a scan of an old microfilmed page from a publication
FORTIETH | ANNIVERSARY
BANQUET AND DANCE
given by the
Erste Obertynert K.U.V.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER FIRST
Nineteen Hundred and Thirty Six
at WEBSTER HALL
119 East 11th Street, New York City |
Music by Pror. MAX AUSFRESSER and his JAZZ BAND
OFFICERS
M. KANZEL oi. Ex-President
J. AUSFRESSER President
L.*SCHERER .............. Vice-President
H. RINDNER Rec Secretary
M. AUSFRESSER . Fin. Secretary
M. RAUCH RET: LY Treasurer
TRUSTEES
L. SCHNECK
M. NADLER
M. WUCHER ....................... Sergeant-at-Arms
J. GESCHWIER _ .... . .. .. Fuehrer

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 06/09/2026

oh yeah I am still drinking my morning coffee so bear with me lol you're correct.

definition in an online dictionary
אױ'ס|פֿרעס|ן
װ (אױ'סגעפֿרעסן)
(moths, chemicals, etc.) eat away at, make holes in

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 06/09/2026

I guess Ausfresser (Oysfreser) can definitely have a negative meaning as a gouger or extortionist but I like to see that the verb can also have positive meanings like sorting things out

dictionary definitions from an online dictionary

אױ'ס|פּרעס|ן
װ (—גע—ט)
iron/press perf.; pressure, extort
אױספּרעסן זיך
straighten out, get sorted out
עס װעט זיך אױספּרעסן
everything will be all right
© 2013 Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 06/09/2026

some more musician guarantors on naturalization applications, Max Ausfresser (1880-1941) was a flautist & klezmer bandleader who I already knew about—great name!—but Max Rosenheck is new to me & is also a great name

scan of a small part of an old form which has info filled out with a typewriter:
The form is for Yetta Berkowitz and two name are given as guarantors:

Max Rosenheck
residing at... 949 Fox St Bronx NY

Max Ausfresser 221 Keap St. Brooklyn NY

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 05/09/2026

have seen plenty of bad handwriting in my research but salute to this Austro-Hungarian official who found a novel way to be bad (turn of the century marriage entry for Jakob Handschuh in Chortkiv, later a musician in NY who knew many klezmorim and I'm trying to sort out if he was one too)

part of an old marriage registry form with headings in Polish and German and fields filled out in an almost incomprehensible handwriting

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 03/09/2026

salute to her (see line 15) (was looking on Familysearch for a particular musician immigrant from Skalat, she is related to some other musicians from there but married this other guy in Czernowitz and later divorced him in Kansas)

an old form from the 1920s signed by Max Blatter. it has been filled out with typewritten answers to a long list of questions. The relevant line is:
Q. During the time you knew him, or at any time, was he ever arrested or engaged in any unlawful occupation? (If so, give full particulars.)
A. She was very quarrelsome with me and other people. One time she was arrested for malisiously breaking a window. sentenced to jail, but appealed and won out on appeal.

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