WEVD

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...