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Joseph Cherniavsky

Cherniavsky was leading guy for the “Yiddish American Jazz Music group,” which, while its name suggests, took a normal klezmer lineup and blended it with contemporary American dance designs like the fox-trot. Featuring virtuoso clarinetists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras, the Music group was immensely well-known for the Yiddish dancehall …

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