Jewish "Gypsy" music

[Paul M. Gifford <PGIFFORD...>]

I'm wondering if anyone on the list knows anything at all about 
Jewish musicians (Hungarian or American or otherwise, probably 
mainly, but not exclusively of Hungarian origin) who played Hungarian 
Gypsy music.  This probably involved wearing a vest and playing the 
violin at restaurants, weddings, banquets, etc., with a repertoire 
that would consist of Hungarian popular and operetta songs, 
csardases, Broadway show tunes, Viennese waltzes, "international" 
standards, etc.  I posted on this subject several months ago but 
thought I would try again.

At the turn of the century, the leading Jewish primas in Budapest was 
Leopold (Poldi) Weiss.  Later on, in New York, Aladar Sio led a 
Jewish Hungarian group.  Meyer Davis, later a well-known society 
orchestra leader, started out in this capacity in the teens.  Same 
for Alexander Haas (he wasn't a Gypsy, but I don't know that he was 
Jewish).  Emery Deutsch was popular in the '30s.  Joseph Moskowitz 
played with one Michel in Washington, DC, who owned his own 
restaurant.  In Detroit there was a violinist, Feher, and a 
clarinetist, Gabor Zingenlaub, active in the '50s, who sometimes 
played with Gypsies.  Julius Klein, cimbalom player, was active in 
Hollywood in the '30s and '40s; another one who went from NYC to LA 
was Bela (Piroska) Schaeffer, a violinist who may have been Jewish.
Finally, it seems that Joseph Kun, cimbalom player with Sio, was the 
son of Laszlo Kun (1869-1939), of Koloszvar (Cluj), who also recorded 
with Sio and was active as an arranger for cimbalom in the 1890s.

Does anybody on the list happen to know anything about Jewish 
involvement in this type of music?  What I know mainly comes from 
Gypsy musicians in Detroit, old records, various casual 
conversations, my father, etc.  I'd like to know more about the Gypsy 
musicians who appeared in many movies in the '30s and '40s.
The Jewishness of the musicians was probably incidental to their 
music, befitting the post-1848 status of Jews in Hungary, but on the 
other hand, Jews were involved in the form from the beginning, even 
before about 1750, when Gypsies began to dominate the form.  Does 
anyone know someone who has an interest in '30s-'40s Hollywood Gypsy 
music, or whether Shony Alex Braun has an e-mail address?

Paul Gifford