Larry Gordon | The Incredible Story Of The Birth Of Jewish Media
Meaningful People
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🗓️ 13 January 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Larry Gordon was born and raised in Brooklyn, and has six children; including Nachi Gordon, co-host of Meaningful People Podcast.
He is a veteran journalist, writing stories on Jewish life and related issues for thirty years. He is also the acknowledged creator of modern Jewish radio. This distinction is due, for Larry, in 1977, pioneered the first weekday morning Jewish music and news program on FM radio—91.1 WFMU at New Jersey’s Upsala College.
Larry’s program, the “Hebrew and Jewish program,” and the format he created, is the direct, originating predecessor of the world famous JM in the AM radio show hosted by Nachum Segal.
Larry’s interest in journalism is inspired by his father, Nison Gordon, a”h, who traveled from Poland when he was 18-years-old to report on life in New York City as the American correspondent for a Polish newspaper. Larry’s father’s became a well know Yiddish writer, writing for “The Day,” “The Day Morning Journal,” and “The Algemeiner Journal,” during a career that spanned over 45 years.
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| 0:00.0 | Two years ago I was in my parents' basement, just going through, honestly there's a box of tapes and |
| 0:05.4 | cassette, it was Shalma Karbach. And my father had interviewed Shalakabakh and they're talking. And the next one was Mayor Kahana. And we found stories that Shalakabakh was saying. was |
| 0:14.0 | saying and we found stories that Shilokanbak was saying. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm like, this is just a box of tape sitting in your base and we actually published one of them. |
| 0:19.0 | Told me wrote 8,000 songs. I said to him, |
| 0:21.0 | Slo did you write anything today? |
| 0:23.0 | He says, yeah, I wrote something today. |
| 0:25.0 | I said, well, could you sing it for me? |
| 0:28.0 | He starts singing, |
| 0:29.0 | Dove with Malach, well, you're well, that's what he started saying, that's what he broke. |
| 0:34.0 | Wow. Hello everybody and welcome back to and welcome |
| 0:43.0 | and the and the everybody and welcome back to another episode of the |
| 0:53.2 | Meaningful People Podcast. |
| 0:55.3 | So happy to have you here. |
| 0:57.4 | This week is quite different. |
| 0:59.4 | I have a special guest on and it is my father, Avie Moy. I had him on the podcast pretty pretty cool. |
| 1:06.2 | Some of you maybe know him most of you probably don't or maybe some of you don't I |
| 1:12.2 | don't know but some of you don't. I don't know. |
| 1:13.0 | But my father literally is the Jewish radio OG. |
| 1:17.0 | Way, way back, way back in the day. |
| 1:20.0 | Besides you're, you know, publishing newspaper right now, he started out on radio and he |
| 1:27.4 | interviewed so many personalities who I never obviously got the chance to interview, whether |
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