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Old 03-27-2011, 10:06 PM   #2 (permalink)
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One of my favourite Yiddish folk songs is "Donna Donna". Here is the English language version by Joan Baez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqzGZ5AaeSs
I had never heard this song before. I enjoyed listening to Joan Baez singing "Donna Donna" once I read what the YouTube poster quoted Baez as saying about the song, which is a song for social justice and apparently even has a role in Czechosovakian history.
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