Word and Melody : Yiddish Poetry Set to Music . . Author   Ruth Levin    Publisher   2005   Publishing year   2005   Binding   hard   Language   hebrew, english and yiddish    Pages   340   ISBN/ISSN   965-7012-59-7          43.00   . Word and Melody : Yiddish Poetry Set to Music Here Ruth Levin presents to the public the best creations of her father Leibu Levin, Czernowitz born actor and composer and the last of the great Yiddish Troubadours and also called the Jewish Schubert. This anthology includes most of Levin's lifetime work and its variety paints a musical portrait of the Jewish epos in the 20th Century.