Yiddish Radio Project 2-Disc Set

Yiddish Radio Project 2-Disc AUDIO CD 1930-50s stories NPR All Things Considered Type: Audio Book Platform: Audio CD Publisher: HighBridge Released: 2002 Media: CD Album FeaturesArtist:Various: Yiddish Radio ProjectFormat:CD, CompilationRelease Year:2002Record Label:HighBridgeCat No:HBP 89173Country:USGenre:Non-MusicStyle:Public Broadcast, Spoken WordThe Yiddish Radio Project is based on a series of stories featured on NPR's All Things Considered in the spring of 2002. The series highlights the golden age of Yiddish-American broadcasting in the 1930s to '50s. In its heyday Yiddish radio was heard from coast to coast, with a dozen stations in New York alone. All that survives from that incredible era are 500 hours of material preserved on 1,000 fragile discs--all of them rescued from storerooms and attics and even dumpsters, by one man, Henry Sapoznik, a musician and historian who has been on a fifteen-year mission to save every remnant from the golden age of Yiddish radio. This co