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YIVO Sound Archives

Interviews and lecture excerpts on scholarly topics, including literature and history, with a focus on the New York Yiddish world. (Primarily in Yiddish.)

  • Enriching Jewish Life with Yiddish (1968)
    A conference explores introducing American Jewry to Yiddish culture and literature.
    25 July 2017, 3:41 pm
  • When Uriel Weinreich's Dictionary Was New (1968)
    The famous Yiddish-English English-Yiddish dictionary and is significance.
    26 June 2017, 3:24 pm
  • Shmuel Lapin on YIVO (1968)
    A glimpse of YIVO almost 50 years ago.
    19 May 2017, 1:27 pm
  • Which Way for Traditional Jewish Learning in America? (1968)
    A 1968 conference paper contemplates the future of advanced yeshiva studies in America.
    5 May 2017, 2:00 pm
  • Historian Isaiah Trunk on Holocaust Research (1968)
    And remarks about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
    20 April 2017, 6:03 pm
  • Jacob Glatstein on Mendele (1968)
    A live recording of a lecture on Yiddish literature delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.
    16 March 2017, 4:55 pm
  • Ezekiel Lifschutz on the Yiddish Press in Warsaw (1968)
    A live recording of a lecture on the Yiddish press delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.
    20 December 2016, 8:44 pm
  • A Lecture by Yudel Mark on Mendele (1968)
    A live recording of a lecture on Yiddish literature delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.
    13 September 2016, 4:18 pm
  • Excerpts from YIVO's Annual Conference (1968)
    Excerpts from YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.
    23 August 2016, 8:13 pm
  • YIVO's Role As An Academic Institution (1968)
    A preview of YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.
    27 July 2016, 8:09 pm
  • Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1968)
    A look back at one of the most significant Jewish anti-Nazi uprisings.
    12 July 2016, 6:14 pm
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