The Stations That Spoke Your Language:
Radio and the Yiddish American Cultural Renaissance

• Betsy Peterson, Director, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress [view bio]
• Roberta Shaffer, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress [view bio]

• The Listening Audience: A Profile of the American Jewish Community: Jenna Weissman Joselit, Charles E. Smith Professor of Judaic Studies & Professor of History, and Director of the Program in Judaic Studies, George Washington University [view bio]
• Ethnic Radio and Mid-Century American Culture: Alexander Russo, Associate Professor, Department of Media Studies, The Catholic University of America [view bio]
• The Rise of Yiddish Radio: Henry Sapoznik, Director of the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture, University of Wisconsin, Madison [view bio]

• Betsy Peterson, Director, American Folklife Center [view bio]

• Yiddish Collections & Materials at the Library of Congress: Peggy Pearlstein, Head, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division (Collections & Services Directorate), Library of Congress [view bio]
• Missing the Punch Line: Mixing the Languages on Yiddish Radio: by Miriam Isaacs, Socio-linguist & Independent Scholar, Washington, DC [view bio]
• Cantorial Music & Yiddish Radio: David Rein, Independent Scholar & early recording expert, Brooklyn, New York [view bio]
• Yiddish Collections at the American Folklife Center: Ann Hoog, Folklife Specialist, Reference, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress [view bio]

• Yiddish Radio in Yiddish Cinema: Alan Gevinson, Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation [view bio]
• Yiddish Radio and the Yiddish Press: Itzik Gottesman, Associate Editor, Jewish Daily Forward [view bio]
• Yiddish Culture and Mainstream Radio's Golden Age: Matthew Barton, Curator of Recorded Sound, Library of Congress Packard Center for Audiovisual Conservation [view bio]

Panel 4
Moderator: Max Ticktin, George Washington University [view bio]

• Ear Training:  Yiddish 78s and the Development of an Audience for Yiddish Radio: Sherry Mayrent, Independent Scholar & Collector, Boston [view bio]
• Can Food Sound Jewish?: Cooking, Eating, and Advertising Food on Yiddish Radio: Eve Jochnowitz, Independent Scholar & Writer [view bio]
• Yiddish Drama and the Work of Nahum Stutchkoff: Amanda Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Librarian, Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library [view bio]
• The Golden Door: American Jews, Holocaust Survivors, and the Radio Programs of the United Service for New Americans, 1947-1948: Roberta Newman, Independent Scholar, Writer, and Researcher [view bio]