![]() ![]() His real name was Isidore Hochberg, and he grew up in a Yiddish-speaking, Orthodox Jewish home in New York. The lyrics were written by Yip Harburg, the youngest of four children born to Russian-Jewish immigrants. What is the story behind somewhere over the rainbow? Yip did not know what the future held for the Jewish people when he wrote this song. It is this feeling of hope within the song that we can all relate to and it is hope that helped the Jewish people through the Holocaust. The song is about hope, that the bad times will one day be over. What is the message of somewhere over the rainbow? ![]()
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