Yiddish song is a general description of several genres of Jewish music sung in Yiddish which includes songs of Yiddish theatre, Klezmer songs, and "Yiddish art song" after the model of the German Lied and French mélodie.
Read more about Yiddish Song: The Yiddish Language and Song, Yiddish Folk Songs, Yiddish Theatre Songs, Yiddish Political and Secular Choral Song, Yiddish Art Songs, Selected Recordings
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“I could take the Harlem night
and wrap around you,
Take the neon lights and make a crown,
Take the Lenox Avenue buses,
Taxis, subways,
And for your love song tone their rumble down.”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)