WEVD
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.
25 July 2017, 3:41 pm
Enriching Jewish Life with Yiddish (1968)
A conference explores introducing American Jewry to Yiddish culture and literature.
26 June 2017, 3:24 pm
When Uriel Weinreich's Dictionary Was New (1968)
The famous Yiddish-English English-Yiddish dictionary and is significance.
19 May 2017, 1:27 pm
Shmuel Lapin on YIVO (1968)
A glimpse of YIVO almost 50 years ago.
5 May 2017, 2:00 pm
Which Way for Traditional Jewish Learning in America? (1968)
A 1968 conference paper contemplates the future of advanced yeshiva studies in America.
20 April 2017, 6:03 pm
Historian Isaiah Trunk on Holocaust Research (1968)
And remarks about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
16 March 2017, 4:55 pm
Jacob Glatstein on Mendele (1968)
A live recording of a lecture on Yiddish literature delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.
20 December 2016, 8:44 pm
Ezekiel Lifschutz on the Yiddish Press in Warsaw (1968)
A live recording of a lecture on the Yiddish press delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.
13 September 2016, 4:18 pm
A Lecture by Yudel Mark on Mendele (1968)
A live recording of a lecture on Yiddish literature delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.
23 August 2016, 8:13 pm
Excerpts from YIVO's Annual Conference (1968)
Excerpts from YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.
27 July 2016, 8:09 pm
YIVO's Role As An Academic Institution (1968)
A preview of YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.
12 July 2016, 6:14 pm
Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1968)
A look back at one of the most significant Jewish anti-Nazi uprisings.
6 June 2016, 6:34 pm
Uriel Weinreich’s First Yortsayt (1968)
Uriel Weinreich, the famed linguist and lexicographer, died young.
25 May 2016, 1:39 pm
A Talk About the Father of Yiddish Theater (1968)
Today's episode was originally broadcast on March 24, 1968. Host Luba Condell is joined by Ezekiel Lifschutz for a talk about Abraham Goldfaden (considered the “father of Yiddish theater”). Condell and Lifschutz trace the origins of Yiddish theater in the purim-shpil (Purim play) and its development into full-scale theater productions. ...
6 May 2016, 4:41 pm
What was YIVO teaching NYC high school teachers in 1968?
YIVO has a long tradition of creating educational resources for all levels of schooling.
21 April 2016, 5:53 pm
A Yiddish course for high school students (1968)
Back in 1968, there was a Yiddish course for high school students in New York City.
30 March 2016, 6:15 pm
YIVO and Yiddish (1968)
YIVO has been active for decades in the teaching of Yiddish and the documentation of Yiddish culture.
14 March 2016, 3:39 pm
YIVO 48 Years Ago on WEVD (1968)
What was YIVO up to in 1968?
2 March 2016, 8:57 pm
Looking back: First YIVO Summer Yiddish program (1968)
YIVO’s intensive Yiddish summer program was founded 48 years ago.
10 February 2016, 8:17 pm
Yudel Mark Discusses the Czernowitz Conference
Yudel Mark discusses the importance of the Czernowitz Conference, the first international conference devoted to Yiddish.
20 January 2016, 3:53 pm
A Scholarly Look at Abraham Mapu
Abraham Mapu was a seminal figure in the rise of modern Hebrew literature.
5 January 2016, 6:51 pm
Research on Nazi Appointees in Death Camps
What roles did Nazi-appointed Jews play in the death camps?
22 December 2015, 4:13 pm
Importance of the Czernowitz Conference to Jewish History
This episode was originally broadcast on January 21, 1968. Yudel Mark, the editor of the journal Yidishe shprakh (Yiddish Language) discusses the importance to Jewish history of the 1908 Czernowitz Conference, the first international conference devoted to Yiddish. 1968 marked the 60th anniversary of the event.From 1963-1976, YIVO had its ...
8 December 2015, 5:27 pm
A Look at the Educational Alliance Collection (1968)
A look at the Educational Alliance records in the YIVO Archives.
24 November 2015, 6:19 pm
A Discussion About Historian Heinrich Graetz
Exekiel Lifschutz discusses the life and work of historian Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891).
13 November 2015, 5:20 pm
Shmuel Lapin on Yiddish
Shmuel Lapin discusses Yiddish in contemporary life (1967).
28 October 2015, 8:21 pm
Yiddish Names for Trees (1967)
Mordkhe Schaechter on the names of trees in Yiddish (YIVO on WEVD, 1967).
9 October 2015, 2:11 pm
The Role of Jewish Police in the Ghettos (1967)
Nachman Blumenthal on role of Jewish police in the ghettos (YIVO on WEVD, 1967).
25 September 2015, 3:46 pm
The role of the Judenrat in the Holocaust (1967)
The role of the Judenrat in the Holocaust.
27 August 2015, 3:22 pm
Max Weinreich on Ashkenazic Jewry, 1000-1300 (1967)
A paper by Max Weinreich on Ashkanaz, 1100-1300
2 July 2015, 3:11 pm
Arieh Tartakower on the Differences Between Hebrew and Yiddish Culture (1967)
In this episode from January 8, 1967, Dr. Arieh Tartakower, sociologist and chairman of the Israeli Division of the World Jewish Congress and president of the World Hebrew Confederation delivers a speech on the differences between Hebrew and Yiddish culture, during a visit to YIVO on December 27, 1966:"We are ...
19 June 2015, 3:34 pm
Agricultural Life in Israel: A Paper from the 40th YIVO Conference (1966)
This episode, originally broadcast on May 22, 1966, features Dr. Shimshon Tapuach of the Department of Agriculture, Jewish Agency, Tel Aviv. By then an Israeli, Dr. Tapuach (whose last name, fittingly enough, means “apple” in Hebrew), spent part of his early academic career at YIVO in Vilna in the 1930s, ...
5 June 2015, 4:09 pm
Jewish Mass Settlement in the United States (1966)
In this episode, originally broadcast on May 15, 1966, Zosa Szajkowski joins host Sheftl Zak to talk about the exhibition “Jewish Mass Settlement in the United States” that he had curated and which had just opened in the YIVO exhibition hall.From 1963-1976, YIVO had its own program on WEVD, the ...
22 May 2015, 5:08 pm
YIVO Offers Courses for Scholars and Public School Teachers (1966)
In this episode, originally broadcast on February 13, 1966, Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter talks about a course in standardized Yiddish orthography recently offered by YIVO. Host Sheftl Zak talks about a class for public school teachers entitled “One Hundred Years of Yiddish Literature” that is about to begin and about the ...
8 May 2015, 4:21 pm
Mikhl Herzog and Florence Guggenheim-Grünberg on Western Yiddish (1965)
In this episode, originally broadcast on November 28, 1965, Dr. Marvin (Mikhl) Herzog interviews Dr. Florence Guggenheim-Grünberg on Western Yiddish. Recorded examples of native speakers of Western Yiddish are featured, with the discussion in English. Among Guggenheim-Grunberg’s publications are "Horse Dealers' Language of the Swiss Jews in Endingen and Lengnau" ...
24 April 2015, 3:54 pm
Interview with Isaiah Trunk on Anti-Nazi Jewish Resistance (1965)
9 April 2015, 3:42 pm
A Discussion About YIVO’s American Jewish Autobiography Collection (1965)
In this episode of YIVO’s radio program on WEVD, YIVO Chief Archivist Ezekiel Lifshutz joins host Sheftl Zak to talk about YIVO’s collection of American Jewish autobiographies,collected during the course of a 1942essay contest on the theme “Why I left Europe and what I have accomplished in America.” Lifschutz had ...
20 March 2015, 4:29 pm
Facts About Yiddish in America (1965)
This episode was originally broadcast on November 7, 1965. Host Sheftl Zak provides some facts about Yiddish in America that he thinks will be of particular interest to two types of listeners: people using the textbook College Yiddish to learn the language and people who have written in to YIVO ...
6 March 2015, 3:45 pm
An Exhibition & A Class on Yiddish Spelling (1965)
In this episode, originally broadcast on October 17, 1965, Zosa Szajkowski joins Sheftl Zak to talk about a YIVO exhibition on Yiddish orthography that was presented in conjunction with a class by Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter on the same subject. The scope of the exhibition reached as far back as the ...
20 February 2015, 5:57 pm
YIVO Autobiography Collection the Subject of Sociological Study (1965)
A scholar talks about the YIVO autobiographies as a research resource (1965).
6 February 2015, 4:45 pm
A Rebuttal to Hannah Arendt (1965)
This episode of YIVO’s radio program on WEVD, originally broadcast on October 3, 1965, is devoted to an interview with Dr. Jacob Robinson about his book, And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight; The Eichmann Trial, the Jewish Catastrophe, a rebuttal to Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on ...
23 January 2015, 5:27 pm
Classes for New York Public School Teachers and a Course on Yiddish Orthography (1965)
9 January 2015, 3:28 pm
YIVO's Activities Around the World (1965)
In this episode, originally broadcast on April 9, 1965, Hannah Fryshdorf comes into the studio to talk about YIVO’s worldwide reach. Over her long career, Fryshdorf rose to be the Assistant Director of YIVO. Her personal papers can be found in the YIVO archives (RG 1243). She first talks about ...
19 December 2014, 5:35 pm
YIVO and Yiddish Writers (1965)
On this episode of YIVO’s radio program, originally aired on April 25, 1965, Yiddish and Hebrew writer, bibliographer, lexicographer, and journalist Moshe Starkman talks about important Yiddish writers and how YIVO in Vilna was influential in documenting and helping their careers. Today, Moshe Starkman's papers can be found in the ...
5 December 2014, 3:06 pm
Three Holocaust Artifacts (1965)
This episode of YIVO’s radio program on WEVD was originally broadcast on April 18th, 1965. To commemorate the uprising in Warsaw Ghetto that took place on the first night of Passover in 1943, host Sheftl Zak talks about artifacts donated to the YIVO archives. Using I.L. Peretz’s short story “Dray ...
21 November 2014, 4:25 pm
A Radio Tour of YIVO’s Photographic Archives (1965)
On April 11, 1965, YIVO Chief Archivist and historian Ezekiel Lifschutz visits the studio to talk with host Sheftl Zak about YIVO’s photographic archive, which documents Yiddish culture and life in Eastern Europe, and whose oldest images date from the 1860s.From 1963-1976, YIVO had its own program on WEVD, the ...
7 November 2014, 4:14 pm
Dr. Max Weinreich Reminisces About the Early Days of YIVO (1965)
This episode, originally broadcast on April 4, 1965, presents excerpts from a speech delivered by Dr. Max Weinreich at a staff luncheon on the occasion of YIVO’s 40th anniversary. The talk covers the founding of YIVO, influential individuals in its history, and sources of funding in the earliest days of ...
24 October 2014, 2:27 pm
The Yiddish Culture Atlas (1965)
In this episode, originally broadcast on March 28, 1965, host Sheftl Zak sits down for a conversation with Dr. Mikhl Herzog, a student of Dr. Uriel Weinreich, about the Yiddish Culture Atlas project. They discuss the ways that the Atlas does more than document different Yiddishdialects. The project also maps ...
6 October 2014, 5:57 pm
People Ask YIVO…. (1965)
In this episode, originally broadcast on March 21, 1965, Dr. Shlomo Noble visits the WEVD studio for a program entitled “Mentshn fregn dem YIVO” (People Ask YIVO). Dr. Noble reports on the types of questions that YIVO gets and how YIVO receives the inquiries and answers them, as well as ...
19 September 2014, 6:52 pm
Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theater (1965)
In this episode, originally broadcast on March 14, 1965, host Sheftl Zak sits down with Wolf Mercur, who helped YIVO acquire the papersof famed Yiddish actor, Maurice Schwartz (1890 - 1960). The collection includes 150 scripts by Sholem Asch, Abraham Goldfaden, Jacob Gordin, Peretz Hirshbein, Y.L. Peretz, I.J. Singer, and ...
7 September 2014, 2:46 am
Today News, Tomorrow History (1965)
In this episode, originally heard on March 7, 1965, YIVOhistorian and archivist Zosa Szajkowski talks about the importance of collecting news of current events: “How what is news today is tomorrow’s history.” Two of the many YIVO archival collections with newspaper clippings and first-hand accounts that he mentions are The ...
15 August 2014, 4:18 pm
Concentration Camp Bergen-Belsen: Its Origin, Development and Liberation (1965)
This broadcast from February 28, 1965 presents excerpts from a paperdelivered at YIVO’s annual conference, which had taken place the month before. As Yedies reported at the time, Joseph Gar, a student of “the history of the recent catastrophe” (note that this was before the term “Holocaust” came into general ...
1 August 2014, 2:25 pm
Yiddish Adjectives/Encounters with Death in Yiddish Folksongs (1965)
This broadcast from February 21, 1965 presents excerpts from two papers delivered at YIVO’s annual conference, which had taken place the month before: 1. "Variety of Functions of the Yiddish Adjective," a paper delivered by Professor Uriel Weinreich at a session of the Linguistic Circle, about certain cases of the ...
18 July 2014, 3:37 pm
Harry M. Orlinsky: The Philosophy of the New Jewish Translation of the Torah into English (1965)
This broadcast from February 14th, 1965 presents excerpts from the paper, “The Philosophy of the New Jewish Translation of the Torah into English” delivered by Dr. Harry (Tsvi Orlinsky), at YIVO’s annual conference, which had taken place the month before. Orlinsky was editor in chief of the Torah for The ...
27 June 2014, 5:01 pm
The Fight Against the Jewish Religion in Russia (1965)
This broadcast from January 31, 1965 presents Harvard professor Dr. Erich Goldhagen delivering a paper, “The Fight Against the Jewish Religion in Russia” to the open session of the Social Science Circle at YIVO’s annual conference, which had taken place earlier that month.As a report on the conference in Yedies ...
13 June 2014, 2:25 pm
One Hundred Years of Yiddish Literature: From Mendele's Little Man to Date (1965)
In this broadcast from January 24, 1965, we hear the paper on Yiddish literature that Dr. Mikhl (Michael) Astour delivered not long before at YIVO’ annual conference: "One Hundred Years of Yiddish Literature: From Mendele's Little Man to Date."As the report on the conference in Yedies noted:Professor Michael Astour surveyed ...
30 May 2014, 3:38 pm
YIVO’s 40th Anniversary/25th Anniversary of Relocation to New York (1965)
Today’s episode was original heard on January 17, 1965. On the 40th anniversary of the founding of YIVO and the 25th anniversary of its relocation to New York, host Sheftl Zak talks about the annual YIVO conference which had begun the night before. As the February 1965 edition of Yedies ...
16 May 2014, 2:37 pm
YIVO’s Annual Conference (1965)
In this episode of YIVO’s radio program on WEVD, originally heard on January 10, 1965, Dr. Nosn Reich talks about the 39th Annual YIVO Conference, which would convene later that month in New York. Many of the upcoming episodes of the series focus on the conference and present excerpts from ...
2 May 2014, 4:31 pm
Questions from Listeners - YIVO’s Program on WEVD (1964)
On December 27, 1964, host Sheftl Zak answered questions from listeners. Topics included YIVO’s plans for 1965, including projects related to its folklore collections and the upcoming publication of Uriel Weinreich’s Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary (the dictionary was first published three years later, in 1968).From 1963-1976, YIVO had its own ...
18 April 2014, 7:14 pm
Isaiah Trunk on the Lodz Ghetto (1964)
On December 20, 1964, historian Isaiah Trunk, a YIVO Research Associate and co-editor of the journals YIVO Annual and YIVO bleter, gave this interview to Sheftl Zak, host of YIVO’s radio program on WEVD, about his work researching the Lodz Ghetto and his book, Lodzher geto: a historishe un sotsyologishe ...
4 April 2014, 4:02 pm
Introducing YIVO’s 39th Annual Conference (1964)
In this episode of YIVO’s radio program on WEVD, originally heard on December 12, 1964, host Sheftl Zak talks about the 39th Annual YIVO Conference, which would convene in January 1965 in New York. Many of the upcoming episodes of the series focus on the conference and present excerpts from ...
21 March 2014, 3:23 pm
The Debut of College Yiddish: Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter on WEVD (1964)
On Sunday, December 6, 1964 Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter joined host Sheftl Zak to talk about College Yiddish, the textbook first published by YIVO in 1946. By the time of the program, a fourth edition of the book was in the works. Zak talks about which colleges and universities are using ...
7 March 2014, 4:02 pm
A Historian Discusses the Papers of Lucien Wolf and David Mowshowitch (1964)
On November 29, 1964, host Sheftl Zak interviewed YIVO historian Zosa Szajkowski about the Papers of Lucien Wolf (1857-1930) and David Mowshowitch (1887-1957) (YIVO Archives RG 348). Wolf was an English Jew who served as a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and was involved in the drafting ...
21 February 2014, 5:03 pm
A Conversation about Ladino: Interview with Dr. Shlomo Noble (1964)
In this episode of YIVO’s program on WEVD, broadcast on November 22, 1964, host Sheftl Zak sits down with Dr. Shlomo Noble, historian and linguist, co-editor of YIVO Bleter and YIVO Annual, to talk about Ladino. Dr. Noble discusses the William Milwitzky Papers (RG 378), which includes linguistic, literary, and ...
7 February 2014, 4:49 pm
The Papers of an American Jewish Communist: Interview with an Archivist (1964)
On November 15, 1964, the featured guest on YIVO’s radio program was YIVO Chief Archivist Ezekiel Lifschutz, who discussed one particular archival collection under his care: the Papers of Kalman Marmor (RG 205). Marmor (1879-1956) was a Yiddish writer, literary critic, editor, lecturer, and political activist. In 1906, he joined ...
24 January 2014, 4:34 pm
The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language: Interview with Yudel Mark
In this episode, believed to have been broadcast on October 25, 1964, host Sheftl Zak interviews Yudel Mark, editor of the journal Yidishe Shprakh and co-editor of the Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language, about his work on the Great Dictionary and YIVO's involvement with the project. (Yudel Mark's papers ...
10 January 2014, 4:55 pm
The YIVO Library in 1964: Interview with Dina Abramowicz
In this broadcast from October 11, 1964, head librarian Dina Abramowicz talks about some of the highlights in the collections of the YIVO Library. The program also includes a discussion about a lunch at YIVO given in honor of a conference at the Leo Baeck Institute.From 1963-1976, YIVO had its ...
27 December 2013, 3:01 pm
Sound Bites from 1964: Moses Kligsberg and Maida Feingold
In this episode of YIVO’s radio program, Moses (Moyshe) Kligsberg talks about YIVO’s Conference on Jewish Participation in Movements Devoted to the Cause of Social Progress, which took place in Carnegie Hall on September 10-13, 1964. Maida Feingold sings “Zamd un Shtern” (Sand and Stars) and “Brukh Shulman,” two songs ...
13 December 2013, 4:48 pm
Max Weinreich on Jewish Participation in Movements for Social Progress
YIVO sometimes used its airtime on WEVD to broadcast recordings of its scholarly conferences. Here, Dr. Max Weinreich delivers the opening address at YIVO's Conference on Jewish Participation in Movements Devoted to the Cause of Social Progress, which took place in Carnegie Hall on September 10-13, 1964.From 1963-1976, YIVO had ...
22 November 2013, 7:07 pm
Interview with Trade Unionist Ossip Walinsky (1964)
This episode of YIVO’s program on WEVD was originally broadcast on May 3rd, 1964. Ossip Walinsky (1887-1973), an active trade unionist and Labor Zionist, was born in Grodno (now in Belarus, close to the borders of Lithuania and Poland) and lived in London before immigrating to America. He served on ...
8 November 2013, 4:39 pm
YIVO's Activities in London: An Interview with Michael Zylberberg (1964)
This third episode, which originally aired on April 19, 1964, features host Sheftl Zak interviewing Michael Zylberberg, journalist and YIVO representative in London. Zylberberg, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, discusses Jewish life and Yiddish in London and his work collecting documents and other historical materials. His collection, which deals extensively with Polish and Jewish anti-Nazi resistance, is in the YIVO Archives (Michael Zylberberg, Papers, RG 493).
25 October 2013, 4:10 pm
Historic YIVO Radio Program on WEVD: A Joint Project with the Cloakmakers Union (1964)
This second episode, which originally aired on January 19, 1964, features host Sheftl Zak interviewing Reva Mark, daughter of scholar Yudl Mark, about her work collecting materials about American Jewish life in the early 20th century, a joint project between YIVO and the Joint Board of the Cloakmakers Union, and ...
11 October 2013, 2:49 pm
From the YIVO Sound Archives: YIVO on the Radio
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 ...