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Re: Yiddish Tango, Jews in tango

Hi Jenny,

Have you come across the Viennese Tango? Apparently the Schrammel
Brothers' style of Viennese salon music was the source of that subgenre
which was essential in creating the typical tango string sound. Josh 
 
> Yiddish tango -- tango with Yiddish lyrics -- originated in two places --
> Argentina and yes -- as Hankus said -- Poland.


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