Abe Elenkrig and Tupac Shakur, Together At Last
Abraham Elenkrig was a trumpeter, a barber, and the bandleader of Abe Elenkrig’s Yidishe Orchestra, one of the very first outfits to record klezmer music in America. Though considered something of a secret treasure by klezmer connoisseurs, Elenkrig has never really gotten his due. Last week, however, the Library of Congress made Elenkrig’s 1913 rendition…
