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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Sandy Fox on Jewish Summer Camp and Yiddish Feminist Podcasting
This week we are joined by Sandy Fox, a PhD candidate at NYU and the host of the popular Yiddish feminist podcast Vaybertaytsh.
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The Pickle Guys: Kosher Pickles on the Lower East Side
This week we sit down with Alan Kaufman, owner of the Lower East Side-based shop The Pickle Guys, known for its specialty pickles and pickled fruits and vegetables.
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Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher
Roger Horowitz, author of the recently published Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food, shares a few backstories from his book about the history of keeping kosher in America.
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The Ellis Island Yiddish Sound Archives
Eric Byron joins us this week to speak about the Ellis Island sound archives, which include a collection of Yiddish phonographic recordings dating from the 1890s to 1930s
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The Abandoned Book: A New Collection of Yiddish Translations
This week we sat down with the Yiddish Book Center's Eitan Kensky to talk about our newest publication, a collection of thirty original translations of Yiddish works.
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Exploring the Roots of Jewish Sounds
From a young age, Judah Cohen was fascinated by the role music can play in shaping one's sense of self.
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Finding Bob Dylan
Seth Rogovoy, author of Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet, talks about Dylan's Jewish roots
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Yiddish Theater in the Digital Age
The Digital Yiddish Theatre Project was founded in 2012 by experts in the field of Yiddish theater, from historians and literary scholars to performers and musicologists.
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Three Generations of Jewish Women and One Graphic Memoir
Flying Couch brings together Amy Kurzweil's own coming-of-age story with the story of her mother, a child psychologist, and her grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.
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Reimagining Matzo
The Brooklyn-based Matzo Project, founded by summer camp friends Kevin Rodriguez and Ashley Albert, aims to make matzo less stale.