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Biography
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Joseph Moskowitz
Effective period / Period of releases: 1916
Cimbalom virtuoso Joseph Moskowitz was born in 1879 in Galati, Moldavia and learned to play cimbal from his father. Moskowitz was already a well-known musician in Eastern Europe when he emigrated to New York in 1907. He performed in his Romanian wine cellar on Rivington Street on the Lower East Side, portrayed in Michael Gold's 1930 proletarian novel, "Jews Without Money".