"Katiusha" question

[Peter Scotto]

Form the _Jewish Daily Foreward_ 8/18/2006

"[Katyusha} was a Soviet-period song composed in 1938 by two Jews: Matvey
Blanter, who wrote the music, and Mikhail Isakovsky..."

Is this correct? Is this possible?  Was Isakovsky a Jew? Everything I've read
abiut him (Soviet and non-Soviet)says that he came from a poor peasant family in
Smolensk province.

Peter Scotto
Mount Holyoke College
pscotto at mtholyoke.edu

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