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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Judaism Unbound Podcast Considers Yiddish in America
This week we visit with Daniel Libenson, host of the "Judaism Unbound" podcast. Daniel talks about the launch of a new series of episodes entitled "Yiddish in America," presented in partnership with the Yiddish Book Center's Decade of Discovery.
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Rokhl Kafrissen Visits with The Shmooze
The Shmooze caught up with Rokhl Kafrissen—journalist, playwright, and Jewish world gadfly—in New York.
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Riffing with Alex Weiser
In a conversation with Alex Weiser, composer and the director of public programs at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, we learn about his debut album, And All the Days Were Purple.
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A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America
This week on The Shmooze, we visit with Kirsten Fermaglich, author of A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America, a groundbreaking history of the practice of Jewish name changing in the 20th century.
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Daniel Kennedy: Translating Hersh Dovid Nomberg's Warsaw Stories
The Shmooze caught up with literary translator Daniel Kennedy at his home in France to chat about the recently published Warsaw Stories, a collection of short stories by Yiddish writer Hersh Dovid Nomberg, newly translated by Kennedy.
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Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet's South Beach 1977–1980
This week, Brett Sokol discusses what drew photographer Andy Sweet to document South Beach's vibrant Jewish community in the late 1970s, capturing the community's daily rhythms in all their beach-strolling, cafeteria-noshing, and klezmer-dancing glory.
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Great Jewish Books Book Club
Daniel Ronfeld dropped by The Shmooze recording studio to chat about the Great Jewish Books Book Club.
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At the Forefront of Yiddish Translation
Recorded live at the Yiddish Book Center's Community Open House in October 2019, Lisa Newman, director of communications, and Mindl Cohen, director of translation and collections initiatives, discuss all things Yiddish translation.
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Harold Bloom: The Late, Legendary, Literary Scholar
This week we visit with Christa Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, to talk about the oral history interview she recorded with the late, legendary, literary scholar Harold Bloom shortly before his death.
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Yiddish for Dogs
This week we visit with Ann Toback, executive director of The Workmen's Circle in New York City, to hear about their program that brings owners and their trusty dog companions together in Central Park, where they learn some basic commands in Yiddish.