Friday, 1 March 2019

MOYSHE KOPSHTEYN


MOYSHE KOPSHTEYN (b. 1911)
He was born in Priluki (Pryluky), Kiev Province.  He studied in the Kishinev yeshiva, received ordination into the rabbinate, and later took up teaching.  During WWII he was in Tashkent and contributed to the local opera.  He later arrived with a troupe in Leningrad where he lived for many years thereafter.  For a long period of time, he was the choir director in the Leningrad synagogue.  From time to time, he published in Yiddish newspapers.  In book form: Dos folk un zayn oyster, mayses, mesholim in folkstimlekhn poetishn levush (The people and their treasury: Tales, fables in popular poetic garb) (Tel Aviv: Sholem, 1979), 213 pp.

Source: Dov Sadan, in Folk un tsien (Jerusalem) 31 (1979).
Ruvn Goldberg


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