A conference explores introducing American Jewry to Yiddish culture and literature.By YIVO Sound Archives

The famous Yiddish-English English-Yiddish dictionary and is significance.By YIVO Sound Archives

A glimpse of YIVO almost 50 years ago.By YIVO Sound Archives

A 1968 conference paper contemplates the future of advanced yeshiva studies in America.By YIVO Sound Archives

And remarks about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.By YIVO Sound Archives

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

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

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

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

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

A look back at one of the most significant Jewish anti-Nazi uprisings.By YIVO Sound Archives

Uriel Weinreich, the famed linguist and lexicographer, died young.By YIVO Sound Archives

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. ...…

YIVO has a long tradition of creating educational resources for all levels of schooling.By YIVO Sound Archives

Back in 1968, there was a Yiddish course for high school students in New York City.By YIVO Sound Archives

YIVO has been active for decades in the teaching of Yiddish and the documentation of Yiddish culture.By YIVO Sound Archives

What was YIVO up to in 1968?By YIVO Sound Archives

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

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

Abraham Mapu was a seminal figure in the rise of modern Hebrew literature.By YIVO Sound Archives

What roles did Nazi-appointed Jews play in the death camps?By YIVO Sound Archives

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 ...…

A look at the Educational Alliance records in the YIVO Archives.By YIVO Sound Archives

Exekiel Lifschutz discusses the life and work of historian Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891).By YIVO Sound Archives

Shmuel Lapin discusses Yiddish in contemporary life (1967).By YIVO Sound Archives

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

Nachman Blumenthal on role of Jewish police in the ghettos (YIVO on WEVD, 1967).By YIVO Sound Archives

The role of the Judenrat in the Holocaust.By YIVO Sound Archives

A paper by Max Weinreich on Ashkanaz, 1100-1300By YIVO Sound Archives

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 ...…

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, ...…

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 ...By YIVO Sound Archives

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 ...…

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 Endinge…

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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 ...…

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 ...By YIVO Sound Archives

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 ...By YIVO Sound Archives

A scholar talks about the YIVO autobiographies as a research resource (1965).By YIVO Sound Archives

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 ...…

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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 ...By YIVO Sound Archives

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 ...…

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 ...…

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 ...…

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 ...…

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 ...…

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 ...By YIVO Sound Archives

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 ...…

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 ...…