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Yiddish Radio Project
- Stories from the Golden Age of Yiddish Radio
- Narrated by: Scott Simon, Carl Reiner, Jerry Stiller
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Yiddish Radio Project
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Publisher's Summary
"From atop the Loews State Theater Building, the B. Manischewitz Company, world's largest matzo bakers, happily presents Yiddish Melodies in Swing..."
Sapoznik spent the next seventeen years searching for more surviving discs. Most had been melted down during WWII scrap-metal drives, others had disintegrated, but he found over a thousand, in attics, storerooms, even dumpsters. Each fragile artifact was a one-of-a-kind window into Jewish immigrant culture during the first half of the 20th century. Searing dramas, swinging music, news programs, advice and game shows, man-on-the-street interviews, commercials, and shtick leaped to life after decades of silence.
Lovingly restored, with translations performed by a cast including Carl Reiner, Eli Wallach, and Yiddish stars, the Yiddish Radio Project is a journey through time to a lost world that is intimate, passionate, raucous and utterly fascinating.
What the critics say
- Peabody Award Winner, 2002
"Remarkable...like recovering a few blocks from the pyramids." (Philadelphia Inquirer)
"It's matzo ball soup for the soul!" (Entertainment Weekly)