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Is This the Best Yiddish Rap You’ve Ever Heard?

Cantor Lee Schwartz kicks it way, way old school

by
Stephanie Butnick
August 19, 2014
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Can I get an oy vey? Lee Schwartz, cantor emeritus at Sinai Free Synagogue in Mount Vernon, N.Y., drops some old school Yiddish beats in what might be the most charming rap video ever posted to YouTube.

I dropped out of my adult education Yiddish class after only one semester, so I’m not exactly sure what he’s talking about, but it sounds pretty hardcore.

Your move, Drake.

Stephanie Butnick is chief strategy officer of Tablet Magazine, co-founder of Tablet Studios, and a host of the Unorthodox podcast.