Sam Yuchtman

Sam Yuchtman (January 15, 1910 – June 26, 1979) was a Toronto broadcaster, entertainer and cantor best known for hosting radio shows in Yiddish and English oriented towards the Jewish community in the city.

Yuchtman was born in Lublin, Poland and moved to Winnipeg around 1917, when he was a teenager, to join his father who had emigrated to Canada earlier. He moved to Toronto in 1936, where he became responsible for bringing Yiddish actors to the Standard Theatre on Spadina Avenue where he also produced and directed several productions.

After World War II, he became one of Toronto's first "Jewish language" radio producers, first at CKFH, then at CFGM, and finally at CHIN radio, Toronto's first multilingual radio station.

In 1948, Yuchtman brought The Jewish Hour (known in Yiddish as Di Yidishe Shtunde), to CKFH after originating it at CKTB, a radio station in nearby St. Catharines, Ontario. It was one of several Jewish, and for many years predominantly Yiddish-language radio programs broadcasting under that or similar names in Toronto and in Jewish population centres around North America. Sam Yuchtman's Jewish Hour became the longest-running Jewish radio program in Toronto. He brought the show to CHIN when it was launched in 1966 and Yuchtman was hired as the station's first producer. Following his retirement in 1976 the show was hosted by his daughter Zelda Young and became known as The Zelda Show and broadcast only in English. Zelda Young hosted the show until her death in September 2023 at the age of 73.

Yuchtman ran for council in North York, Ontario in the 1966 municipal election but was lost to Robert Yuill.