{"id":30867,"date":"2023-08-08T17:03:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=30867"},"modified":"2023-09-28T16:08:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:08:21","slug":"brudno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/08\/brudno\/","title":{"rendered":"BRUDNO"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nEugene \u201cThe<\/strong><\/span> Eggman\u201d Brudno sold eggs to bakeries and came to a lot of my gigs. Eugene\u2019s brother, Walter, also sold eggs. Eugene was involved in the Workmen\u2019s Circle. I knew Walter\u2019s son, Marshall, who sold eggs too.<\/p>\n

Marshall, now 76, dropped out of Michigan, sold eggs, opened a hippie food store called Marshall\u2019s Grain and Bean; opened an organic bakery (this was in the 1970s) called Stone Oven (different than today\u2019s Stone Oven); closed the bakery; became a plumber; got religious, then got not-so religious; and moved to a farm in southern Ohio.<\/p>\n

I was in southern Ohio on a bike trip in 2010 and bumped into Marshall at the Grange Hall in Amesville, Ohio. He offered Alice and me a lift in his pick-up truck. I turned him down but Alice took him up on it. We were on a group ride, the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure (GOBA).<\/p>\n

Marshall is a smart guy who works with his hands. He\u2019s good at snaking drains. He\u2019s good at eggs\/ farming\/ bread\/ plumbing. All hands-on. I think he still does plumbing. I haven\u2019t seen him in 13 years. Marshall knows a lot of Yiddish. He used to daven at an Orthodox shul in Cleveland Heights.<\/p>\n

I think<\/span><\/strong> about Brudno<\/em>, the name, a lot because I regularly see Brudno <\/em>etched in stone on a West Side building. The Brudno building is on Detroit Avenue in Lakewood.<\/p>\n

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A 19th century Brudno went off to Yale and became a lawyer and novelist. This was in the 1890s!\u00a0Ezra Brudno. He built the Brudno building in the 1920s. Ezra’s dad ran a cigar-rolling sweat shop. I\u2019ve read about Ezra and his family in the archives at the Western Reserve Historical Society.<\/p>\n

The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History<\/em> states: “He [Brudno] wrote that there was little, if anything, of value in Judaism and Jewish culture worth preserving.” Harsh.<\/p>\n

Cigar-rolling shops were common at the turn of the 20th century. The shops were often in houses. In Cleveland, the cigar-rolling houses were called \u201cbuckeyes.\u201d I read an account of a worker who worked for Ezra\u2019s father. The worker was a communist. She wrote about what a hole the place was. She also wrote about Ezra: \u201cHe had all the luck.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marshall — my\u00a0 generation — was the ultimate hippie. He probably still is. According to Facebook, he has a small finca in Costa Rica, where he goes in the winter, and the rest of the year he lives on a farm in the hills outside Athens, Ohio.<\/p>\n

Brudno:<\/em> the<\/strong><\/span> building. The Brudno men, the legends, right here.<\/p>\n

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Yiddishe Cup plays a free outdoor concert 7 pm. Thurs., Aug. 17, at Walter Stinson Park, 2301 Fenwick Rd., University Heights. Bring a blanket or chair. We’ll play klezmer and Motown. The concert is dedicated to the memory of Walter Stinson, a University Heights community coordinator.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yiddishe Cup. 1993. (Half the guys in this photo are still in the band — 30 years later. The left half.)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Eugene \u201cThe Eggman\u201d Brudno sold eggs to bakeries and came to a lot of my gigs. Eugene\u2019s brother, Walter, also sold eggs. Eugene was involved in the Workmen\u2019s Circle. I knew Walter\u2019s son, Marshall, who sold eggs too. Marshall, now 76, dropped out of Michigan, sold eggs, opened a hippie food store called Marshall\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cleveland-full"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30867"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30888,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30867\/revisions\/30888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}