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The Song Of Berditchev

This is the seventh of a series of 15 programs celebrating the 15th anniverary of, "The Eternal Light." An eighteenth century rabbi challenges God! The script was first used on "The Eternal Light" on February 23, 1947, on September 17, 1950 (see cat. #111138), and on October 11, 1953 (see cat. #16004). After-dinner speaker: Oscar Dane of New York City, president of The Conservative Synagogue of Riverdale, and chairman of The Universal Brotherhood Committee of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

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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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“The Song Of Berditchev.” The Eternal Light. Radio broadcast, March 29, 1959.

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