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                                                                                                Mayn Yiddishe Meydele
                                                                           Music: Sholom Secunda (1894-1974);
Lyrics: Anshel Schorr (1871 1942) 
                                                                                                Singers  Klezmer Conservatory Band (Russia)

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       "Mayn Yiddishe Meydele" - "My Jewish Girl" is a popular Yiddish song composed by Sholom Secunda and Anshel Shora in 1922.  Sholom Secunda  was born in 1894 in the city of Aleksandria, Kherson Governorate part of the Russian Empire.
"How lovely she is! Search the world over and you'll never discover another like her and with her charm" said the song. The Russians fell so much in love with the music that they wrote Russian version of the song, "The golden-domed Moscow",  that became a favorite song of Russian post-revolutionary emigration. 
        For as long as I remember, this was my father's favorite song to sing to me. I will always be his kleininke Yiddishe Meydele. (Little Jewish girl)

Yiddish
Froyen fil hob ikh gezen
Bay yedn folk zaynen zay farsheydn
Nor keyne iz nit azoy sheyn, vi di  froy bay dem Yidn
A Yidish meydl mit ir blik, farkishift bald in gantsen dikh
Un gistu nor oyf ir a kuk, ilstu a Yidishn tam in zikh 

Refrain
Mayn Yidishe meydele
Zi iz azoy sheyn
Mayn Yidishe  meydele
Mit ir Yidishn kheyn
Fun gold ire herelekh
Di tseyn ner vi perelekh
Nor a Yidishe meydl ken zayn azoy sheyn
Ir vet far milyonen

Bay andre natsyonen nit gefinen a meydl
Mit a Yidishn kheyn

English
How lovely she is!
Search the world over and you'll never discover another
like her and with her charm) 

English Refrain from sound clip: 

A beauty so fine and rare
That's my Yiddishe girl
With charms that
you simply cannot compare
That's my Yiddishe girl
Hair golden and
swinging free
A smile open -- a sight you should see
There is noone more
dear to me
Than my Yiddishe girl
Search now, search forever
The
world over wherever
But you won't find another
Like my Yiddishe
girl