Independent Producer David Isay brings us the latest installment in the Yiddish Radio Project, a 10-part series airing weekly on All Things Considered. Today, hear the story of Victor Packer. Packer ...
Until the mid-1980s, hundreds of recordings of Yiddish radio’s Golden Age were languishing in the dustbin of history. Literally. Then Henry Sapoznik got going. Sapoznik, one of the leaders of the ...
Independent producer David Isay brings us the seventh installment of the Yiddish Radio Project, a 10-part series airing weekly on All Things Considered. Today we hear the story of Yiddish radio ...
A radio series about the history of Yiddish radio has touched off a flurry of anti- Semitic e-mails. National Public Radio, which is airing the 10-part “Yiddish Radio Project,” has received more than ...
NEW YORK — Ask Seymour Rexite to sing your favorite song and the 91-year-old will gladly oblige, in Yiddish. "Yiddish radio was very big," Rexite says, and so was he for 40 years on the air. "Name ...
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) – Steadfast listeners of “Borscht Beat” — a weekly FM radio show featuring Jewish music, old and new — will be thrilled to hear of host Aaron Bendich’s latest ...
NEW YORK — Ask Seymour Rexite to sing your favorite song and the 91-year-old will gladly oblige, in Yiddish. "Yiddish radio was very big," Rexite says, and so was he for 40 years on the air. "Name ...