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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Shmoozing with Anthony Russell and Dmitri Gaskin
This week we visit with Yiddish vocalist Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and pianist/accordionist Dmitri Gaskin.
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The Shmooze: Live at Yidstock
Podcast Producer and Yiddish Book Center Fellow Zeke Levine caught up with a few of the many performers at Yidstock 2018.
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On Press with Pakn Treger: The Making of the Magazine
Producer Zeke Levine and host Lisa Newman take The Shmooze on the road to Studley Press in Dalton, Massachusetts, where the summer issue of Pakn Treger, the Yiddish Book Center’s English-language magazine, is being printed.
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Yiddish Immigrant Life in Song and Verse
Vivi Lachs joins us to talk about her newly published book, Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914.
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An Expert’s Guide to Jewish San Francisco: Aga Ilwicka
This week, we visit with Aga Ilwicka, who provides a guide to Jewish San Francisco.
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An Expert’s Guide to Jewish Rhode Island: Sam Zerin
This week, we visit with Samuel Zerin, a musicologist, music theorist, composer, and pianist, who provides a guide to Jewish Rhode Island.
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Sarah Aroeste: Bringing Ladino to the Stage at Yidstock
Sarah Aroeste has spent the last 15 years bringing her contemporary style of original and traditional Ladino music to audiences around the world. On July 15, she’ll be taking the stage at Yidstock along with Anthony Russell.
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JT Waldman Talks Comic Books and Judaism
Comic book creator and digital designer JT Waldman visited The Shmooze’s studio to answer our questions about his work, the intersection of comic books and Judaism, the graphic novel, and the roots of Jewishness in visual storytelling.
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Miriam Udel on Yiddish Children’s Literature, Translation, and Literary Encounters
This week we visit with Miriam Udel to talk about her research and her teaching, which focus on Jewish encounters with modernity in literature, as well as her work translating Yiddish children’s literature.
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Ilan Stavans on Jewish Children’s Literature
This week we sit down with Ilan Stavans to talk about his upcoming three-part lecture series taking place at the Yiddish Book Center May 1, 8, and 15: “People of the Picture Book: The History of Jewish Children’s Literature.”