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The Jerusalem Quartet's Yiddish Cabaret explores of the rich world of Jewish popular music in Poland between the two world wars, and the substantial influence this music had in Europe, and subsequently in the US after the war. Jewish humor and self-irony is ever-present in the songs that were featured in Jewish cabarets in Warsaw in the early 20th century. Featuring singer Hila Baggio, the repertoire recorded here spans the space between traditional songs, through the rich cabaret culture of the time, to classical quartet compositions of Jewish composers of the period.