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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