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Isaiah Sheffer (reader of Stutchkoff's thesaurus) is the host of NPR's Selected Shorts and the Artistic Director of Symphony Space. The nephew of Yiddish-radio and stage great Zvee Scooler, he began his career acting on various of Stutchkoff's dramas and later became the English-language announcer on WEVD, where he worked with Yiddish radio luminaries such as Seymour Rexite and C. Israel Lutsky, The Yiddish Philosopher.