A Scholarly Look at Abraham Mapu (1968)
This episode was originally broadcast on February 4, 1968. Dr. Shlomo Bickel discusses the life and work of pioneering Hebrew novelist Abraham Mapu. Host Luba Condell closes out the program by talking about the publication of the Uriel Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary, published that year by YIVO, and announces an upcoming conference on Yiddish in America.
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.
YIVO used its spot on WEVD for Yiddish-language interviews and discussions with leading New York Yiddish cultural figures, as well as for reporting on its own scholarly and cultural work.
A new podcast of this program in the order in which it was originally broadcast will be posted here every two weeks.
Series curated by Matt Temkin, YIVO Sound Archives.
[This program is in Yiddish.]