I should remember to search obits for all the ones who died in more recent decades. (this one from the Philadelphia Inquirer, 1995). plenty of great info in them that is otherwise not documented anywhere, and gives leads on the names of living relatives

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There are about 16 Kaplans I've found so far in the P.M.B.S., not sure how they are all related yet (if at all). This Nathan was also born in Kyiv, was a trumpeter, not sure much about his career just yet.

Sarah's dad was called Motl Bernstein which now I'm thinking of A Bit Fruity 😅🍑אַ ביסל פרוכטיק

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still working my way through these photos over morning coffee some days when I feel like it, here Nathan Reichel was a Kyiv-born theatre & vaudeville trombone player who seems to have toured in the 1920s with Nat Kornspan, another apparent vaudeville/klezmer crossover guy. 🤔

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I was posting about him a while back👇 and he had a brief mention in my PMBS presentation in Montreal. a vaudeville drummer and local 802 clerk born in Bucovina. the nickname Jayzee is new to me though 🤓
https://klezmor.im/@carkner/115194743561397792

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