A Conversation about Ladino: Interview with Dr. Shlomo Noble (1964)

In this episode of YIVO’s program on WEVD, broadcast on November 22, 1964, host Sheftl Zak sits down with  Dr. Shlomo Noble,  historian and linguist, co-editor of YIVO Bleter and YIVO Annual, to talk about Ladino. Dr. Noble discusses the William Milwitzky Papers (RG 378), which includes linguistic, literary, and folkloric data relating to Ladino, that folklorist Milwitzky collected in the Balkans in 1898-1899. The program concludes with information about the upcoming publication of the new issue of the YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science.

From 1963-1976, YIVO had its own program on WEVD, the radio station established by the Socialist Party of America in 1927 (its call letters stand for the initials of American socialist leader Eugene V. Debs), which was purchased by the Jewish Daily Forward in 1932 and became a major venue from Yiddish programming.

YIVO used its spot on WEVD for Yiddish-language interviews and discussions with leading New York Yiddish cultural figures, as well as for reporting on its own scholarly and cultural work.

A new podcast of this program in the order in which it was originally broadcast will be posted here every two weeks.

Presentation of series curated by Matt Temkin, YIVO Sound Archives.

Listen to the program [in Yiddish].