How They Knocked The Devil Out Of Uncle Ezra
The fourth of five parables by Morton Wishengrad. In the small town of Daled, Uncle Ezra is born an old man. The conflict is perpetual: man or boy. After-drama speaker: Albert Gordon, director of The United Synagogue of America, speaking from Chicago. The program was repeated on "The Eternal Light" on May 23, 1948. In fact, the 1948 program may be a recorded playback of this same broadcast, it's hard to tell. The program was rebroadcast yet again on October 30, 1949. The program of October 30, 1949 is not catalogued separately.
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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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“How They Knocked The Devil Out Of Uncle Ezra.” The Eternal Light. Radio broadcast, November 24, 1946.
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