The Role of Jewish Police in the Ghettos (1967)

In this episode, broadcast on December 17, 1967, Luba Condell continues to report on a YIVO colloquium about the role of the Judenräte, or Jewish administrations imposed by the Nazis in the ghettos during the Holocaust. She interviews Dr. Nachman Blumenthal, a research associate at Yad Vashem about his presentation, “The Role of the Jewish Police and its Relation to the Judenrat.”

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.]