Dear visitors of our site: we are glad to inform you about our new unique publication: the bio-bibliographic index of Moisey Beregovsky, the great collector of Jewish folk songs. This new bilingual book in English and Russian, which contains Beregovsky’s detailed biography, was written and compiled by Evgenia Khazdan, a well-known musicologist, music critic and senior researcher from St. Petersburg. Published in May 2023, her work is now open for personal use on our website with the permission of the author and the Moscow publishing house Muzyka.

Moisey Beregovsky (1892–1961) is an outstanding figure in Soviet musicology, a scientist who almost single-handedly erected the building of Jewish musical folklore research, gathered a colossal collection of Yiddish songs, klezmer melodies, Hasidic nigunim and recordings of Purimshpils. Note that earlier we had also published on our website a substantial number of Beregovsky’s original works.