[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Check out the Wikipedia Article, it was originally titled, "Bei Mir Bistu Shein" (בײַ מיר ביסטו שיין) for a Yiddish Musical, titled Men Ken Lebn Nor Men Lost Nisht, ("You could live, but they won't let you"). Yiddish is a Jewish dialect of German, not related to Hebrew, though it borrows some Hebrew vocabulary, and is often written in Hebrew characters.

I knew it was a Yiddish song. The Original song was a duet (like "You're the Top"), with the lovers exchanging compliments. The English adaptation sung by the Andrews Sisters is obviously from the point of view of a female. The title was Germanized for the Andrews Sisters adaptation, as well, obviously. Still lovin' on the fact that it pissed off the Nazis. "Arayan" musical is as sterile and inane as "Arayan" physics.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I was talking about the title in question only. Not surprising about it being Jewish authored, lots of Jewish songwriters. Interesting.