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1930s & ’40s Yiddish Radio

June 25, 2009

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We highly recommend Tablet’s Sara Ivry in audio conversation with scholar Ari Kelman on Yiddish-language radio programs.  Touching and informative, this piece – complete with excerpts from the shows – is a fascinating insight into a period of time, a religion, and a culture.“In the 1930s and ’40s, airwaves in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and other major cities were filled with Yiddish-language shows which offered a mix of news, advice, cantorial music, and radio plays. They gave foreign-born listeners, many of them refugees, a chance both to learn about life in their new country and to be entertained. Ari Y. Kelman, a professor of American studies at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States, talks with Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry about how Yiddish programming both mimicked and deviated from its English-language counterpart—and about its family-centered melodramas, rabbi-adjudicated court shows, and performing lady cantors.” – Tablet

3 Comments leave one →
  1. August 11, 2009 4:47 am

    I recomand you my website maxkohn.com with lots oy Yiddish interviews
    Thank you to put a link with it and to speak about it

  2. August 11, 2009 4:48 am

    Please put a link with uy website full of Yiddish interviews

  3. August 11, 2009 4:49 am

    Can you put a link with ny webste in Yiddish

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