Moisei Beregovsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Moisei Beregovsky

Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist

Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1892

Place of Birth: Termakhivka, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 12-Aug-1961

Profession: folklorist, musicologist, ethnomusicologist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Moisei Iakovlevich Beregovsky (Russian: ?????? ????????? ???????????) (1892 – 1961) (the Hebrew first name is ??? Moshe-for Moses, surname Beregovski or Beregovskii,in Yiddish ???????????), was a Soviet era (currently split between the Russian and Ukrainian) Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist.
He has been called the "foremost ethnomusicologist of Eastern European Jewry".
His research gathered melodies and words of Yiddish folk songs, wordless melodies (nigunim), as well as Eastern European Jewish dance melodies (klezmer music).