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 ...

The United States Postal Service is honoring folk music icon Pete Seeger with a Forever Stamp. Given the occasion, it’s a good time to revisit Seeger’s legendary, and gone-too-soon, TV show and the ...

In 2002, director/playwright Karen Sommers heard a story on National Public Radio about the Jewish American Board of Peace and Justice, a Jewish mediation court on the Lower East Side of New York that ...

NEW YORK, March 12 (JTA) — 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 ...

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 ...

In 1947, a radio program called Reunion debuted on radio station WOR in New York City. The show was designed to reunite Holocaust survivors on air. Today, independent producer David Isay brings us the ...

Everyone knows what Charles A. Lindbergh accomplished in the summer of 1927. But what about Charles A. Levine? Who knew that Levine, a self-made millionaire in the junk business, flew the Atlantic ...

The announcer’s voice itself is a time machine, throwing listeners back to a bygone era. “Yiddish Swing takes old Yiddish folks songs and finds the groove for them in merry modern rhythms,” he said.

By the time Arik Luck discovered Moishe Oysher, a celebrity cantor and star of Yiddish cinema, radio and theater, about 50 years had passed since Oysher's death. For Luck, an aspiring actor who was in ...