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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“In song and dance man expresses himself as a member of a higher community: he has forgotten how to walk and speak and is on the way toward flying up into the air, dancing.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)