Excerpts from YIVO's Annual Conference (1968)

In this episode, originally broadcast on May 12, 1968, host Luba Condell introduces the first part of Dr. Shlomo Bickel's opening remarks from the 42nd Annual YIVO Conference that had begun the night before at New York City’s Town Hall and was continuing though Tuesday evening at the YIVO building.  

From 1963-1976, YIVO had its own program on WEVD, the radio station established by the Socialist Party of America in 1927 (its call letters stand for the initials of American socialist leader Eugene V. Debs), which was purchased by the Jewish Daily Forward in 1932 and became a major venue from Yiddish programming. 

YIVO used its spot on WEVD for Yiddish-language interviews and discussions with leading New York Yiddish cultural figures, as well as for reporting on its own scholarly and cultural work.

A new podcast of this program in the order in which it was originally broadcast will be posted here every two weeks.

Series curated by Matt Temkin, YIVO Sound Archives.

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[This program is in Yiddish.]