Having invoked Yiddish in describing the experience of
listening to Enrico Caruso and Nellie Melba on the new
National Jukebox set up by the
Library of Congress, I feel it fair to note that Yiddish itself is present on the Jukebox. it turns out that there is an "Ethnic spoken word" category that includes Yiddish. There are also songs with Yiddish texts. The first one I discovered was "
De Yiddisha shimmy." It is worth a listen, even if you do not know Yiddish!
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