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Listen to native speakers pronounce “meeropol” in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
It was there in 1939 that she was introduced to and began performing the song "Strange Fruit," an anti-lynching protest song written by Jewish writerAbel Meeropol. This song catapulted Billie Holiday into a new kind of stardom.The owner of Cafe Society was hip enough to not only let her sing the song, but to demand absolute silence.