Interview with Isaiah Trunk on Anti-Nazi Jewish Resistance (1965)

In this interview, originally broadcast on November 21, 1965, Isaiah Trunk talks about Jewish resistance to the Nazis in the ghettos and in the forests. Trunk was a historian, archivist, and longtime associate of YIVO who wrote extensively about the Holocaust. The Papers of Isaiah Trunk in the YIVO Archives include materials related to his scholarly career, original documents from the Lodz Ghetto, and notes for graduate courses he taught.

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.

Presentation of series curated by Matt Temkin, YIVO Sound Archives.

Listen to the program [in Yiddish].