Moses Beregovsky

Moisei Iakovlevich Beregovsky (Russian: Моисей Яковлевич Береговский) (1892 – 1961) (the Hebrew first name is משה Moshe-for Moses, surname Beregovski or Beregovskii,in Yiddish בערעגאווסקי), 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).

Beregovsky was born into the family of a Jewish parochial elementary school teacher in the village of Termakhovka, then in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire. As a child he participated as a boy-chorister in a local synagogue. He studied in the conservatories of Kiev (composition and cello in 1915–1920) and Petrograd (1922–1924). He also worked as a vocal coach in Jewish orphanages in Petrograd and Moscow under Joel Engel. In 1928–1936 he was the head of Musical Folklore section of the Institute for Jewish Proletarian Arts of the Sciences Academy of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1936–1949 he was a researcher in the Institute for Language and Literature, head of the Office of Folklore of Jewish Arts Section of Sciences Academy of Ukrainian SSR, head of the Office for musical ethnography. He was a teacher in the Kiev Conservatory from 1947 (sections of music theory and folklore).

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