A conference explores introducing American Jewry to Yiddish culture and literature.

Enriching Jewish Life with Yiddish (1968)

Uriel Weinreich

The famous Yiddish-English English-Yiddish dictionary and is significance.

When Uriel Weinreich's Dictionary Was New (1968)

Shmuel Lapin

Shmuel Lapin on YIVO (1968)

A 1968 conference paper contemplates the future of advanced yeshiva studies in America.

Which Way for Traditional Jewish Learning in America? (1968)

Isaiah Trunk

And remarks about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

Historian Isaiah Trunk on Holocaust Research (1968)

Jacob Glatstein

A live recording of a lecture on Yiddish literature delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.

Jacob Glatstein on Mendele (1968)

Ezekiel Lifschutz

A live recording of a lecture on the Yiddish press delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.

Ezekiel Lifschutz on the Yiddish Press in Warsaw (1968)

A Lecture by Yudel Mark on Mendele (1968)

Excerpts from YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.

Excerpts from YIVO's Annual Conference (1968)

A preview of YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.

YIVO's Role As An Academic Institution (1968)

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.

WEVD

A look back at one of the most significant Jewish anti-Nazi uprisings.

Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1968)

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 ...

A Rebuttal to Hannah Arendt (1965)

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

Arieh Tartakower

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 ...

Arieh Tartakower on the Differences Between Hebrew and Yiddish Culture (1967)

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 ...

Isaiah Trunk on the Lodz Ghetto (1964)

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 ...

Yiddish Adjectives/Encounters with Death in Yiddish Folksongs (1965)

Maurice Schwartz

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 ...

Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theater (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 ...

One Hundred Years of Yiddish Literature: From Mendele's Little Man to Date (1965)

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 ...

The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language: Interview with Yudel Mark

Max Weinreich

A paper by Max Weinreich on Ashkanaz, 1100-1300

Max Weinreich on Ashkenazic Jewry, 1000-1300 (1967)

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. ...

A Talk About the Father of Yiddish Theater (1968)

Moses Kligsberg

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 ...

Sound Bites from 1964: Moses Kligsberg and Maida Feingold

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 ...

Concentration Camp Bergen-Belsen: Its Origin, Development and Liberation (1965)

YIVO’s intensive Yiddish summer program was founded 48 years ago.

Looking back: First YIVO Summer Yiddish program (1968)

Mordkhe Schaechter on the names of trees in Yiddish (YIVO on WEVD, 1967).

Yiddish Names for Trees (1967)

Ossip Walinsky

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 ...

Interview with Trade Unionist Ossip Walinsky (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 ...

The Debut of College Yiddish: Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter on WEVD (1964)

Yudel Mark discusses the importance of the Czernowitz Conference, the first international conference devoted to Yiddish.

Yudel Mark Discusses the Czernowitz Conference

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 ...

The Papers of an American Jewish Communist: Interview with an Archivist (1964)

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