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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Sarah Abrevaya Stein: A Story of Sephardic Jewish History Through a Family's Journey
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, professor of history and Jewish studies at UCLA, talks with The Shmooze about her book Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century and the process of writing history through personal stories.
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My Aunt Cipe Pineles
Bob Schor chats with us about his remarkable aunt Cipe Pineles. Born in Vienna in 1908 to an Orthodox Jewish family, Cipe immigrated to New York in 1923, and went on to have an amazing career as the first female art director at Condé Nast.
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Re-Reading Bellow, Roth, Malamud, Ozick, and Other Great Jewish Writers
This week, The Shmooze visits with editor and author Stephen Shepard to talk about his literary memoir A Literary Journey to Jewish Identity.
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Yiddish on Stage and Screen: Allen Lewis Rickman Gets Serious
Allen Lewis Rickman, producer, director, and performer of Yiddish theater, joins The Shmooze to talk about his work translating Yiddish for the stage and screen.
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Asymptote's Yiddish Poetry in Translation
Alexander Dickow visited with The Shmooze to talk about Asymptote's recently published Yiddish poetry in translation feature that he co-edited with Asymptote's Editor-In-Chief Lee Yew Leong.
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Anita Norich's Newly Translated A Jewish Refugee in New York
This week on The Shmooze we visit with Anita Norich to talk about the recently published A Jewish Refugee in New York by Kadia Molodovsky, which she translated.
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Caraid O'Brien: Yiddish Translator, Actor, and Writer
Caraid O'Brien joined us in the studio this week to discuss her career as a writer, Yiddish translator, and performer since learning Yiddish as a Yiddish Book Center intern in 1994.
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Zangwill's Spitalfields and London's East End
Nadia Valman visits with us to talk about her walking tour of Zangwill's Spitalfields, the Jewish immigrant neighborhood of Victorian Spitalfield.
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Seth Rogovoy Talks All Things Klezmer and Yidstock
Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock's artistic director and the author of The Essential Klezmer, joins us to talk about Yidstock 2019, the Yiddish Book Center's annual summer music festival.
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The Story Behind Newly Translated Yiddish Correspondence
Mindl Cohen joins us on The Shmooze to talk about the "2019 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue," a collection of letters and stories about letters.