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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From the Yiddish Book Center’s Collection: All Things Turkey-Related
Yiddish Book Center fellows Sophia Shoulson and Sarah Quiat searched the Center’s collection for Thanksgiving-related content, and join us on The Shmooze to share what they discovered.
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Ilan Stavans and the Film “My Mexican Shivah”
Ilan Stavans stopped by the studio this week to discuss “My Mexican Shivah,” a film based on one of his stories.
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Marvin Zuckerman on Translation and Growing up in New York’s Jewish Labor Movement
Marvin Zuckerman joins The Shmooze this week to discuss his translation of Bernard Goldstein’s Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland.
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Photographer Rebecca Lepkoff
Rebecca Lepkoff (1916-2014) was one of the great twentieth century photographers. Her husband Eugene and son Daniel dropped by our studio to talk about Rebecca’s life and work from their unique vantage point.
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David Stromberg’s In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times
David Stromberg, a self-described Yiddish-activist, discusses his latest book, In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times, a collection of newly translated Yiddish stories for readers of all ages.
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New York's Jewish Photographers
Professor Deborah Dash Moore discusses the cluster of New York Jewish photographers who pictured the city, their home, in the middle decades of the 20th century.
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Discovering and Translating Yiddish Writer Yenta Mash
Ellen Cassedy speaks with us about Yenta Mash - a master chronicler of exile- and the collection of her stories which Cassedy has newly translated from the Yiddish.
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The Pied-Piper of Yiddish Dance
Steve Weintraub left the dance floor long enough to join us in studio to talk about Yiddish dance.
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Hankus Netsky on "The Shmooze"
Hankus Netsky, founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, dropped by the studio to chat about the roots of Yiddish music and his work as a musician, teacher, and ethnomusicologist.
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A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture
In a conversation with Shachar M. Pinsker we learn about the place of coffeehouses in the creation of modern Jewish culture from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.