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Philosophers, Fiddlers & Fools

Philosophers, Fiddlers & Fools

Philosophers, Fiddlers & Fools

KCRW presents Ruth Seymour's popular perennial salute to the little villages and towns of Eastern Europe through the Second Avenue Hit Parade. Music, stories and memories from a world now vanished.

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Philosophers, Fiddlers and Fools: A Farewell

Philosophers, Fiddlers and Fools: A Farewell

Here's how it began. Go back to a grey afternoon in December. It's 1978. KCRW is located in the playground of a junior high school, across the street from Santa Monica College. When you open the door, you're immediately inside the station's only broadcast studio.  We have the oldest radio transmitter west of the Mississippi. Our equipment is old, too; it's in constant need of repair. Our office is a narrow one-room jumble of scarred school desks...

Philosophers, Fiddlers and Fools 2005

Philosophers, Fiddlers and Fools 2005

Ruth Seymour's 27th annual three-hour Chanukah salute to Yiddish.

Philosophers, Fiddlers & Fools 2004

Philosophers, Fiddlers & Fools 2004

KCRW General Manager Ruth Seymour's 26th annual three-hour Chanukah salute to Yiddish.

Philosophers, Fiddlers & Fools 2003

Philosophers, Fiddlers & Fools 2003

In time to celebrate Chanukah, this is the 25th anniversary edition of General Manager Ruth Seymour's perennially popular annual salute to Yiddish.

Philosophers, Fiddlers & Fools 2002

Philosophers, Fiddlers & Fools 2002

In honor of Chanukah, KCRW presents General Manager Ruth Seymour's perennially popular annual salute to Yiddish.

Philosophers, Fiddlers & Fools 2001

Philosophers, Fiddlers & Fools 2001

KCRW presents General Manager Ruth Seymour's perennially popular annual salute to Yiddish in honor of Chanukah.

 

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Ruth Seymour
Ruth Seymour has been the General Manager of KCRW since 1978.  Each year at Hannukah she hosts her signature Yiddish music program, Philosophers, Fiddlers and Fools. She is also a sometime host of The Poltics of Culture.

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