Simplify the following text for a Grade 5 native English-speaking person.
Original: Holiday was recording for Columbia in the late 1930s when she was introduced to `` Strange Fruit '' , a song based on a poem about lynching written by Abel Meeropol , a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx .
Simplified: She heard of a song called `` Strange Fruit '' . It was based on a poem about lynching written by Abel Meeropol , a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx .