Looking back: First YIVO Summer Yiddish program (1968)

This episode was originally broadcast on February 18, 1968. Dr. Judah Shapiro, director of YIVO’s advanced studies program, comes into the studio to talk about the first Uriel Weinreich Summer Yiddish Program, to be held at Columbia University.

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.]

Join us on July 11, 2018 in celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Summer Program as we honor Yiddish teacher and YIVO board member Chava Lapin.