Mishka Ziganoff

Mishka Ziganoff ( Odessa , 1889 - New York , 1967 ) was a Ukrainian naturalized American musician.[1]

Biography

Also known as Tziganoff or Tsiganoff, Zinganoff was a gypsy musician originally from Odessa , a city in Ukraine , who moved to New York at the beginning of the last century, where he opened a restaurant.

Virtuoso accordionist, Mishka Ziganoff, despite being a Christian, was well versed in Yiddish and Klezmer music.

In 1919 he recorded a disc that contained the song "Koilen", whose melody, as reported by the research by the scholar Fausto Giovannardi, would be very similar and probably would have inspired a part of the melody of the famous Italian partisan song "Bella Ciao".[2]

According to the scholar Rod Hamilton, of The British Library in London , "Kolien" would be a version of "Dus Zekele Koilen" ( Two bags of coal ), of which there are various versions dating back to the 1920s.

References
  1. "Archive for Mishka Ziganoff". yiddishsong.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  2. "Da ballata yiddish a inno partigiano il lungo viaggio di Bella ciao". repubblica.it. 2008-04-12. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
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