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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“Half of my life is gone, and I have let
The years slip from me and have not fulfilled
The aspiration of my youth, to build
Some tower of song with lofty parapet.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)