"[2] Generally 17th and 18th century songs and lullabies are anonymous, but the composers of others such as are known; such as Oyfn Pripetshik "On The Hearth" by Mark Warshawsky.
Di Shvue "The Oath" (1902) was the Yiddish anthem of the socialist, General Jewish Labour Bund in early 1900s Russia.
Zog Nit Keyn Mol "Never say (this is the end of the road)" was a partisan song written in 1943 by Hirsh Glick, for the Vilna Ghetto resistance.
[7][8] Though like many German Lieder and French mélodies Yiddish art songs may make sensitive use of folk tunes.
[10][11] New settings of Yiddish poetry continue today as well including vayter un vayter (2012), a selection of Abraham Sutzkever poems set to music by Judith Shatin, and and all the days were purple (2017/2019), a song cycle including poetry in Yiddish by Anna Margolin, Abraham Sutzkever, Rachel Korn, and others by Alex Weiser which was named a 2020 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Music.