Susman Kiselgof

Z. Kiselgof (seated on the right), in Kremenets, 1912

Susman (Zinoviy Aronovich) Kiselgof (Зусман Аронович Кисельгоф, זוסמאַן קיסעלהאָף Zusman Kiselhof; 1878–1939) was a Russian-Jewish folksong collector and pedagogue associated with the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg.[1][2][3][4] Like his contemporary Joel Engel, he conducted fieldwork in the Russian Empire to collect Jewish religious and secular music.[5] Materials he collected were used in the compositions of such figures as Joseph Achron, Lev Pulver, and Alexander Krein.[5]

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