Abraham Moskowitz

Abraham Moskowitz (born c. 1880 in Slobozia, Ialomița County, Romania, died 1956 in New York City) was a Yiddish language baritone and tenor, Yiddish theater actor and recording artist of the early twentieth century who recorded mainly between 1917 and 1927.

His most successful recordings were made in collaboration with the klezmer bandleader and composer Abe Schwartz.

Little has been written about Moskowitz's early life, although he was apparently born outside of Bucharest, Romania around 1880.

However, he was also a talented Yiddish language singer and became involved in the booming "ethnic" recording industry in the 1910s.

[9] In the 1990s and 2000s, there was some renewed interest in Moskowitz's recordings, and they started to appear on a number of reissue CDs, such as Yiddish : New York-Paris-Varsovie 1910-1940 (1994),[10] From Avenue A to the Great White Way (2002)[11] and Cantors, klezmorim, and crooners, 1905-1953 : classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection (2009).