Katiusha question

[Deborah Hoffman]

While I must confess to a lack of personal knowlege, it doesn't seem inconceivable. There were certainly poor peasant families who were Jewish, and there was / is a community in Smolensk which itself is not that far from the old Pale of Settlement boundary... 
  

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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:12:11 -0400
From: Peter Scotto 

Subject: "Katiusha" question

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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