a violinist and NY theatre musician possibly born in Bulgaria or Egypt in the mid 1880s, not sure about the klezmer connection aside from him being a member of a klezmers' burial society. love TO KNOW HIM WAS TO LOVE HIM

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I'm not sure what the name is of this type of grave marker but I absolutely love them, you don't see many of them up here in Vancouver. also love the inset portraits which maybe 1/4 of these graves have and are often the only photo I've seen of these old musicians. Mr. Chabinsky here was a cornetist/trumpeter born in the Russian Empire in the 1870s, played on steamboats and owned a music store in NY, not sure about the klezmer connection for him either.

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there are several members of this family buried here going back a century, but here's one of the longest living ones, love the design for a bassist. only passed away 20 years ago so I'll have to ask some people if they knew him

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that's actually his brother who died of Pneumonia 70 years before him😢actually similar set of dates to my grandmother who lost her brother to Polio; she herself lived into the 2010s. I never even heard of him from the family except she told me when I interviewed her once that she thought of him regularly.

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Another new photo, I think this guy was the founder of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society (he's identified as such on one of the archways) but I know basically nothing about him. A cornet/trumpet player born in the Russian Empire. Such a common name that would be hard to search...🤔

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salute to Dave Levitt for going to the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society plot at Beth Israel cemetery and taking about 150 photos for me, getting most of the ones I didn't have. (His parents' graves are in that section, so it was a courtesy to me while he was making a visit.) lots of fascinating details when you see the actual gravestones. (this is their other plot from my thread above)

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the graves in this PMBS plot are newer than the ones at Mt Hebron so fewer of them have old fashioned (100 year old) flourishes, but there are still many interesting ones. like this one of Isidore Friedenthal, who somehow was not on my list of PMBS members at all till now, so I'm not sure who he is!

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