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spicuous omission.
"No one had ever written
about Yiddish radio," he says.
When he asked the literary
scholar Irving Howe why he
never mentioned it in World
of Our Fathers, his great tome
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ture, Howe replied that he
didn't think it was important.
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the foundation for a radio documentary.
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together the story of Yiddish radio.
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however, presented the first of many
challenges. Unlike commercial discs,
which were issued in multiple copies,
transcription discs were not intended for
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was in the thick of it.
Schein's parents, Harry and Jenny
Weinberg, ran the city's most suc-
cessful Yiddish radio program. From
1932 to 1955, the couple hosted a
variety show featuring local and
nationally known musicians, actors,
comedians, lecturers and commen-
tators. For a while, there was even
an advice columnist — Jenny
Weinberg herself.
"My father had been a Yiddish
actor in Europe, and he kept acting
when he came to the United States,
first to New York, then to
Cleveland," Schein said. "But when
he fell in love with my mother, her
father said she couldn't marry an
actor; he couldn't support a family.
So my father went into the shoe
business in Detroit."
The Depression soon wiped out

the shoe business, and Harry
Weinberg went back to what he
knew best — performing.
The Weinberg Yiddish Radio
Program spent most of its broadcast-
ing life on WJBK-AM, Detroit's
home for foreign language radio. At
one time, Schein said, the station
featured programs in 32 different
languages.
Schein joined the Weinberg
Program when she was 16. "It was
early radio in those years," she said.
"People loved to come to the studio
and observe us through those big
windows.
"We had a hook-up with the
Jewish Old Folks Home. It was a
remote — unheard of until then."
According to historian Sidney
Bolkosky's Harmony er Dissonance:

Voices ofiewish Identity in Detroit,