Beregovsky Index Published in Moscow
The Moscow publishing house Muzyka has published Evgeniya Khazdan’s book Moisey Beregovsky: Biobibliographic Index. The author and compiler, who lives in Saint Petersburg, is a musicologist, music critic and a Candidate of Sciences specializing in art criticism. The publishing house would like to thank Academic Grigory Roytberg for his help in publishing this book.
Moisey Beregovsky was an outstanding musicologist and researcher of Jewish folklore, whose collection of Yiddish songs, klezmer melodies, Hasidic nigunim and musical theatrical performances comprise a gigantic layer of Yiddish culture. Khazdan accomplished a great task by compiling the first biobibliographic index of his works.
As the author writes in the preface, the book “includes Beregovsky’s published works, as well as his manuscripts, information on archive materials, currently known articles about him and his work, and publications addressing the materials from his collection.”
The Index is bilingual (English-Russian). The electronic version of this book is available on our website. Muzyka is the oldest Russian music publishing house, where the first volume of Beregovsky’s famous five-volume collection was published in 1934. This book is also available electronically on our website.
On August 6, a screening of the documentary Song Searcher: The Times and Toils of Moyshe Beregovsky took place at the New York Museum of Jewish Heritage. The documentary was created by the Russian director Elena Yakovich. During the discussion after the screening, Julia Zilberquit, the executive director of the Heritage Projects Foundation, told the audience about the new Beregovsky Index.
