Joseph Moskowitz playing the cimbalom (c.1920s)
Joseph Moskowitz (יאָסעלע מאָשקאָװיטש) (1879 – 1954) was a Romanian-born American cimbalom player, restaurant owner and recording artist in New York City during the first half of the twentieth century. A descendant of a family of klezmer musicians, he was among the most well-known American cimbalom players of his time, and had a wide repertoire which included not only Jewish music but also Romanian, classical, and ragtime music. His restaurant Moskowitz & Lupowitz, on Second Avenue also became a popular destination and celebrity hangout in the 1920s and 1930s.