A thread of some photos from the Joseph and Lara Cherniavsky archival collection at YIVO. Russian Jewish musicians who were married & arrived in NYC around 1920, Lara was a pianist and arranger, and Joseph was a cellist, composer and bandleader. This seems to be backstage in the mid 1920s in Joseph's "Hasidic American Jazz Band" which was neither Hasidic nor Jazz, but was a vaudeville klezmer act featuring some of NY's finest.
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