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Dan Carkner🎻 @carkner@klezmor.im

11/26/2025, 3:48:44 PM

Public

I'm giving a lecture in Montreal at the end of February on one of my ongoing fascinations, the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society, a NYC mutual aid society for klezmer musicians and their families which had its heyday from the 1920s to the 1950s. Venue & time info TBD!
https://klezkanada.org/year-round/yiddish-culture-jam/

#klezmer #MusicHistory #JewishMusic #MutualAidHistory

screenshot of a paragraph from a website:
"The Progressive Musical Benevolent Society: a Mutual Aid Society for New York Klezmorim (1890–2010)
with Daniel Carkner
This talk is part of our Participant-Led Series
The Progressive Musical Benevolent Society was a mutual aid and burial society in New York City which counted among its members many of the celebrities of old American klezmer music, as well as upwardly mobile musicians who left klezmer behind. It changed over several eras of New York Jewish life, from its start as a labour union, to a mutual aid and social organization, to mainly being a burial society after WWII. This talk will explain how and why it was formed, what its purpose was, and who some of its notable members were: Brandweins, Beckermans, Levitts, and dozens of now-forgotten musicians and their families."

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