Pugnacious Commodore
The story of Uriah Levy, who started his career as a ten-year-old cabin boy. He joined the navy and fought in the war of 1812. Despite the prejudice against him because he was a Jew, he become a captain and later a commodore. He is remembered for abolishing corporal punishment in the U.S. Navy. After-drama speaker: Stanley Garten, of the National Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs. The program was repeated on October 17, 1954 as the 6th of a 12-part series celebrating the 300th anniversary of Jews in America and on November 13, 1960.
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The Eternal Light was an American radio and television program on the NBC Radio Network, produced in conjunction with the Jewish Theological Seminary, that was broadcast between 1944 and 1989. Featuring interviews, commentary, and award-winning dramas from the perspective of Judaism, it began on radio in 1944 and continued as a weekly radio program through 1989. A 1946 program, for example, dramatized humanitarian Lillian Wald's founding of New York City's Henry Street Settlement in 1895. The May 31, 1959, program featured a tour of the Holy Land narrated by Ralph Bellamy.
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“Pugnacious Commodore.” The Eternal Light. Radio broadcast, June 1, 1947.
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