Yudel Mark Discusses the Czernowitz Conference

This episode was originally broadcast on February 11, 1968. Yudel Mark, the editor of the journal Yidishe shprakh (Yiddish Language) returns for a second program about the importance to Jewish history of the 1908 Czernowitz Conference, the first international conference devoted to Yiddish. (Mark previously tackled this topic in a broadcast on January 21, 1968.) 1968 marked the 60th anniversary of the event.  

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.]