Moyshe Beregovsky crisscrossed Ukraine with a phonograph in hand during the most dramatic years of Soviet history to record and study the traditional music of Ukrainian Jewry. The wax cylinders, which were thought to be lost, captured a Yiddish musical culture that was destroyed in the Holocaust.

SONG SEARCHER is not only Beregovsky’s remarkable story but a window on 20th century Ukrainian Jewish history, all told against the backdrop of a Yiddish musical treasure rediscovered.