Interesting find in a 1915 issue of Forverts. It's an ad for a Christmas music ball at the Berditshever Lodge in New York in 1915 boasting of having "union musicians from Pedutser's orchestra, under the leadership of Max Knofel"
Pedutser (A. M. Kholodenko) was a celebrity #klezmer violinist and composer from Berdychiv who died in 1902 and never came to America. His band often contained 20 musicians so it's possible some ended up as union musicians in New York by the time of WWI.🤔 #MusicHistory
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