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 ...

A Discussion About YIVO’s American Jewish Autobiography Collection (1965)

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.

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A Discussion About YIVO’s American Jewish Autobiography Collection (1965)

A Discussion About YIVO’s American Jewish Autobiography Collection (1965)