On Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:30:04 AM UTC-5, Maximo Lachman wrote:   
   > "gusmeister" (gusmeister_NOSPAM_@sympatico.ca) writes:   
   > > Thank you for your response.  I speak German and I can assure you the song   
   > > itself is not in German (but the title is).  Yes, the Swedes don't have an   
   > > aversion to singing in German but Zarah (who moved to Nazi Germany and   
   > > replaced Marlene Dietrich, who had moved to America) sang most of her songs   
   > > in German.  I would like to believe Zarah's version is in Yiddish but there   
   > > are not enough Yiddish sounds (like "kh") in the song.   
   >   
   > It would be nice to believe that she was promoting interfaith dialogue   
   > back then, but that sounds too good to be true. Yiddish can sound quite   
   > similar to dialects in central Germany, so my guess would be that whoever   
   > arranged music/lyrics for her, found that the song would scan & rhyme just   
   > as well in one such dialect. When was it recorded?   
      
   It was recorded on March 21st, 1938 (As posted on a Youtube recording)   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imvDoeY7vEg   
      
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