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.
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Staging Mikhl Yashinsky’s American Yiddish Drama
Mikhl Yashinsky is on The Shmooze to talk about his new drama The Gospel According to Chaim, the strange tale of a Jewish writer’s quixotic attempt to publish a controversial book.
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New in Translation: Yiddish Writer Frume Halpern
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub joins The Shmooze to talk about his latest translation, a collection of short stories by Yiddish writer Frume Halpern.
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Shir Hashirim (The Song of Songs): A Yiddish Operetta
Ronald Robboy and Alex Weiser visit with The Shmooze to talk about their collaboration on the performance of the music of Shir Hashirim (The Song of Songs), a 1911 operetta by Joseph Rumshinsky and Anshel Shor.
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Jewish Anarchist Histories Reclaimed
The Shmooze visits with Anna Elena Torres, Kenyon Zimmer, and Ayelet Brinn, editors and contributors to an expansive new volume of essays exploring suppressed histories of Jewish anarchism.
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Kristen Morgenstern’s Zine: Irena Klepfisz: The Life of the Fighter
On The Shmooze, Kristen Morgenstern, a senior studying history and theater at Middlebury College, tells the story behind her zine Irena Klepfisz: The Life of the Fighter.
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Amid Falling Walls: A Groundbreaking Musical
Avram Mlotek visits with The Shmooze to talk about the upcoming performance of Amid Falling Walls, for which Avram created the libretto. Amid Falling Walls) is presented by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.
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Faith Jones on Translating Shira Gorshman
The Shmooze visits with translator Faith Jones to talk about her recently released Meant to Be and Other Stories, by Shira Gorshman (White Goat Press).
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David Mazower on Yiddish: A Global Culture
The Shmooze sat down with chief curator and writer David Mazower for the first in a series of conversations about the Yiddish Book Center’s landmark permanent exhibition, which opens on October 15, 2023.
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Women on the Yiddish Stage
This week on The Shmooze, editors Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel and Alyssa Quint talk about Women on the Yiddish Stage, a series of publications that amplifies the voices of women in the historical Yiddish theater.
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The Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project
On a visit with The Shmooze, photographer Marisa Scheinfeld talks about her work on The Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project. The resulting work will create a series of markers to commemorate the Borscht Belt era.