Strange Fruit Mention of the Day: "When Billie Holiday became famous for singing Strange Fruit, not many knew the story behind its Jewish composer and lyricist, Abel Meeropol. . .The iconic song began life in 1937 as a poem written by Meeropol, a Jewish writer, teacher and songwriter of Russian-Jewish extraction, under his pseudonym Lewis Allan."
"The Jewish composer behind Billie Holiday’s ‘song of the century’" for Jewish News (March 12, 2021). https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/the-jewish-composer-behind-billie-…