YIVO and Yiddish (1968)

Today's episode was originally broadcast on Feburary 25th, 1968. Host Luba Condell is joined by YIVO executive secretary Shmuel Lapin, to talk about YIVO’s activities in 1967 and plans for 1968. Shmuel Lapin also talks about more general plans to expand what YIVO is doing for the leaning of Yiddish and for documentation of Yiddish culture.

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.]