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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The Inaugural New York Jewish Book Festival
Joshua Mack and Gabriel Sanders sat down with The Shmooze to share a preview of what’s on for the 2022 New York Jewish Book Festival.
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The Remarkable Backstory of Chana Blankshteyn’s Fear and Other Stories
Anita Norich visits with The Shmooze to talk about her translation of Chana Blankshteyn’s Fear and Other Stories.
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Women in Yiddish
Editor Mindl Cohen sits down with The Shmooze to talk about the soon-to-be-released 2022 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue.
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A Trilingual (Yiddish, Ukrainian, English) Volume of Two Works of Children’s Poetry
Jordan Finkin and Jessica Kirzane visit with The Shmooze to talk about their latest project, a trilingual (Yiddish, Ukrainian, English) volume of two works of children’s poetry.
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Debra Olin’s Mixed Media Considers An-sky’s Questionnaire
Debra Olin's Every Protection: Folk Culture and Motherhood in the Jewish Pale of Settlement is currently on exhibit at the Yiddish Book Center, created around An-sky’s probing, evocative questions.
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Josh Lambert on Jews and Publishing
In conversation with The Shmooze, author Josh Lambert talks about his latest book, The Literary Mafia.
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Working 9 to 5: A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie
This week on The Shmooze, Ellen Cassedy, author of Working 9 to 5: A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie, newly published by Chicago Review Press with a foreword by Jane Fonda.
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The Mystery of the Library of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin
Piotr tells the story of the vanished Library of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, or Academy of the Sages of Lublin—one of the greatest mysteries from the postwar history of Lublin.
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Girl with Two Landscapes: The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab
Dorothée Rozenberg, daughter of Lena Jedwab Rozenberg, joins The Shmooze to talk about her mother’s wartime diary, Girl with Two Landscapes: The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab.
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How the Soviet Jew Was Made
Sasha Senderovich, author of the recently published How the Soviet Jew Was Made, sits down with The Shmooze to talk about his latest work.