🕵️old klezmers🎻Aug 11, 2025

I think I posted it back in February, but I was chuckling again at this barbershop ad found in the 1936 30th anniversary journal of the Kiever Revolutionary Branch 25 of the Arbeter Ring (!), a Jewish mutual aid society based in New York. "Haircuts and Finger Waving" teehee.

I couldn't find a direct photo of the barbershop but we can see the corner of it from the photo of the next building over, from the 1940 WPA tax photo.

#Barbershops #Bronx

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It was only three short blocks from an immense communist Coop housing project in the #Bronx, hence the advertisement I suppose. Or maybe the owner was a member of this Arbeter Ring branch.

Sharing again this fascinating Jewish Currents article from a few years back about the rise and fall of utopian coop housing in the Bronx:
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-coops

#Housing #coophousing

The Rise and Fall of the Coops

The Bronx cooperative was a communist utopia, until it wasn’t.

Jewish Currents
Aug 11, 2025 at 3:30pmWeb