Joseph Moskowitz
"Tsimbalist"
Cimbalom (a concert-size hammered dulcimer with dampers) virtuoso Joseph
Moskowitz was born in 1879 in Galati, Moldavia and learned to play cimbal
from his father. Moskowitz was already a well knowing musician in Eastern
Europe when he emigrated to New York in 1907. He performed in his Romanian
wine cellar on Rivington St. on the Lower East Side, portrayed in Michael
Gold's 1930 proletarian novel, "Jews without Money".
The tune featured is "Buhusher Khusid (Khusid from Buhusi, Romania) Joseph
Moskowitz, cimbalom, Max Yussim, piano, New York -1917.
