Dan Carkner

stuck at home w/ a cold again today, so poking around online to find more about him (Max Thaler, Buenos Aires born klezmer musician played for Galician landsmanshaftn in NYC 1940s-60s). figured out that his dad Elias Thaler (1884–1938) was a fruit peddler in NY probably born in Lviv.

would love to include Max in my talk in Dec. about Galician klezmer musicians in NY despite him being such an odd case (born in Argentina, working in a later era than I usually research). love his many names: Menachem Mendel Thaler, Maximilian Thaler, Adolfo Maximo Tala, Mel Tailor, Mac Thaler ...

Sitka Media paid this homophobic, racist, pro-Eugenics BC Conservative staffer dude to write pro oil industry slop. remember that when you share their benign municipal coverage content. this is not a normal media company

oh, Ottawa... 😔

good find for my research on NY Galician klezmer musicians, a member of the extensive Goldring family from Skalat, many of whom became musicians in NYC, wrote a short memoir that someone posted on Ancestry. By Morris Goldring (1894–1968).

Not much else about music although he does talk about the untimely death of his musician brother Sigmund in 1947, and how much it shook his mother.

good find for my research on NY Galician klezmer musicians, a member of the extensive Goldring family from Skalat, many of whom became musicians in NYC, wrote a short memoir that someone posted on Ancestry. By Morris Goldring (1894–1968).

reading on, this must have been around 1912–14 because he started medical school at NYU in 1915. He talks about summer classes because of many of the professors being drafted in '17, and how many of the medical students were sent to help deal with the Spanish Flu epidemic the following year.

good find for my research on NY Galician klezmer musicians, a member of the extensive Goldring family from Skalat, many of whom became musicians in NYC, wrote a short memoir that someone posted on Ancestry. By Morris Goldring (1894–1968).

He then worked evenings in dance studios "operated by incompetent teachers who taught basic steps only to the tune of repetitive piano chords," till he graduated public school and could join the music union (AFM local 310).

good find for my research on NY Galician klezmer musicians, a member of the extensive Goldring family from Skalat, many of whom became musicians in NYC, wrote a short memoir that someone posted on Ancestry. By Morris Goldring (1894–1968).

Eventually by way of an aunt living in Newark NJ, they were sent tickets and some family members went to save enough money for him and the other kids to be brought. They settled on East 2nd St and his dad & oldest brother joined the music union while he enrolled in basically an ESL school.

good find for my research on NY Galician klezmer musicians, a member of the extensive Goldring family from Skalat, many of whom became musicians in NYC, wrote a short memoir that someone posted on Ancestry. By Morris Goldring (1894–1968).

he talks about how in 1903 refugees from the Kishinev pogram crossed the border and settled in the town (Podwołoczyska, not Skalat), and kickstarted the moribund economy of the town. at this time, when he was 9, his father taught him the basics of playing chords as a second violinist, and so...

good find for my research on NY Galician klezmer musicians, a member of the extensive Goldring family from Skalat, many of whom became musicians in NYC, wrote a short memoir that someone posted on Ancestry. By Morris Goldring (1894–1968).

i'm looking at the detailed results riding by riding and 2500 people still voted for the nazi teenager guy in my riding lol😒

ah, it was delayed a bit because it had been misplaced in the archive, but they finally sent it to me. a 1953 memorial essay by Karol Rathaus about his uncle, the klezmer and composer Chune Wolfsthal. you can read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1X7mW... the draft: drive.google.com/file/d/1xjFL...

Kudos to JewishGen for finally making it possible to Search Polish placenames with Polish spelling in their Town Finders search. insane that I had to manually change characters to the English alphabet to make searches all these years lol