Susman Kiselgof

Susman Kiselgof (Зусман Аронович Кисельгоф; 1884 in Belizh, Vitebsk Governorate – 1939 in Leningrad) was a Russian-Jewish folksong collector.[1] associated with the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg.[2] Along with Joel Engel he conducted fieldwork to collect religious and secular folk songs. He also introduced the pianist Moses Milner to the Society which published many of Milner's Yiddish songs.[3]

References

  1. ↑ History of the New Jewish School in music
  2. ↑ J. S. Walden "Der Eintritt des Jüdischen in die Welt der Kunstmusik" 2009
  3. ↑ Russian Jewish Encyclopedia
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