72 episodes
WEVD YIVO Sound Archives
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- Society & Culture
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4.7 • 6 Ratings
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Interviews and lecture excerpts on scholarly topics, including literature and history, with a focus on the New York Yiddish world. (Primarily in Yiddish.)
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Enriching Jewish Life with Yiddish (1968)
A conference explores introducing American Jewry to Yiddish culture and literature.
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When Uriel Weinreich's Dictionary Was New (1968)
The famous Yiddish-English English-Yiddish dictionary and is significance.
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Which Way for Traditional Jewish Learning in America? (1968)
A 1968 conference paper contemplates the future of advanced yeshiva studies in America.
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Historian Isaiah Trunk on Holocaust Research (1968)
And remarks about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
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Jacob Glatstein on Mendele (1968)
A live recording of a lecture on Yiddish literature delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.