What was YIVO teaching NYC high school teachers in 1968?

Today's episode was originally broadcast on March 17, 1968. Host Luba Condell is joined by Dr. Shlomo Noble, who gives a report on YIVO's course for public school teachers, "Concurrence of General and Jewish History in the Modern Period." He gives listeners a taste of final student papers. Condell ends the episode by talking about the upcoming YIVO Uriel Weinreich summer Yiddish language program.

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.]