The Shmooze
The Yiddish Book Center's podcast includes conversations with Jewish culture makers, plus news and stories related to Yiddish literature, language, and culture.
Previous episodes
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The Yiddish Folksong Project
Kimberly Lazzeri joins The Shmooze to talk about the recently released Yiddish Folksong Project Anthology and shares the story behind this collection of Robert De Cormier’s folksong arrangements, which had been in a storage closet for over forty years.
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After 80 Years Postcards Find Their Way Home to Lublin
Piotr Nazaruk and Karla McCabe joined The Shmooze to tell the story of the thirty-six postcards that Karla recently hand-delivered to Pitor Nazaruk at a ceremony in Lublin, Poland.
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Sivan Slapak’s Here Is Still Here
Writer Sivan Slapak visits with The Shmooze to talk about her debut collection, Here Is Still Here. The stories provide a layered exploration of human connection and the complexities of identity.
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Yiddish Culture in America
The Shmooze visits with Sebastian Schulman for a chat about Yiddish culture in America as we celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month.
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in a dark blue night: two song cycles on Yiddish/Jewish New York
Alex Weiser visits with The Shmooze to talk about his latest work, in a dark blue night, consisting of two connected song cycles.
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The Yiddish Book Center’s Bossie Dubowick YiddishSchool
Sonia Bloom and Judith Liskin-Gasparro speak to The Shmooze about Yiddish-language learning, their work in the field, and their participation at the Yiddish Book Center’s upcoming Bossie Dubowick YiddishSchool.
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The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Ross Perlin, the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, visits with The Shmooze to talk about his new book, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.
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Across So Many Seas
Author Ruth Behar speaks with The Shmooze about Across So Many Seas. Her latest book was inspired by Behar’s paternal grandmother’s side of the family of Sephardic Jews living in Spain up until the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.
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A Worker’s Yiddish Library on View
Marvin Zuckerman and Ruby Elliot Zuckerman join The Shmooze to talk about their family’s story, which is featured in the Yiddish Book Center’s new core exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture.
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Telling the Story of Yiddish Theater
David Mazower, chief curator of the Yiddish Book Center’s core exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture, and Caraid O’Brien, co-curator of the exhibition’s theater section, chat with The Shmooze about all things Yiddish theater.