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Yiddish Radio Project

CD - 2002 CD Radio Yiddish 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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"As heard on NPR's All things considered"--Container insert.
Notes reviewing the project inserted in container.
Disc 1. The Yiddish radio dial (16:31) -- Rabbi Rubin's court of the air (12:54) -- Hebrew national commercial (:16) -- Commercials on Yiddish radio (11:09) -- Happy birthday (:28) -- Yiddish melodies in swing (15:02) -- Campbell's soup commercial (:24) -- Reunion with Seigbert Freiberg (12:08) -- disc 2. Introduction (:33) -- The dramas of Nahum Stutchkoff (8:23) -- 'Round the family table (12:45) -- Lifschitz wine commercial (1:02) -- Levine and his flying machine (11:21) -- The Jewish philosopher (12:46) -- Sterling salt commercial (1:12) -- Victor Packer, the one-man radio empire (12:19) -- Seymour Rechtzeit, the Yiddish crooner (6:19) -- Credits (1:07)
Host: Scott Simon.
Documentary of the Yiddish Radio Project, which is dedicated to rescuing sound recordings from the 1930s to the 1950s of Yiddish radio. Discusses the history of Yiddish radio, the restoration of the recordings, and Jews in mainstream media.

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All things considered (Radio program)



PUBLISHED
Minneapolis, MN : High Bridge, p2002.
Year Published: 2002
Description: 2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] p. : ill. : ports. ; 12 cm.)
Language: English
Format: CD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1565117131 :

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Sound Portraits Productions.
National Public Radio (U.S.)

SUBJECTS
Yiddish language -- United States.
Radio programs -- History.
Radio broadcasting -- History.
Jews -- New York.