Katiusha question

[Edward M Dumanis]

While there were many Jewish shtetls in Smolensk Province, the village of
Glotovka was hardly one of them. I think that the Jewish Daily Foreward
is confused by the fact that the poet's name sounds like Jewish. However,
it might be (and probably so) of some Polish origin (Isakowski). I am not
able to comment on the origin of this name in Polish.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>


On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Deborah Hoffman wrote:

> 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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