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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Daniel Kennedy: Translating Hersh Dovid Nomberg's Warsaw Stories
The Shmooze caught up with literary translator Daniel Kennedy at his home in France to chat about the recently published Warsaw Stories, a collection of short stories by Yiddish writer Hersh Dovid Nomberg, newly translated by Kennedy.
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Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet's South Beach 1977–1980
This week, Brett Sokol discusses what drew photographer Andy Sweet to document South Beach's vibrant Jewish community in the late 1970s, capturing the community's daily rhythms in all their beach-strolling, cafeteria-noshing, and klezmer-dancing glory.
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Great Jewish Books Book Club
Daniel Ronfeld dropped by The Shmooze recording studio to chat about the Great Jewish Books Book Club.
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At the Forefront of Yiddish Translation
Recorded live at the Yiddish Book Center's Community Open House in October 2019, Lisa Newman, director of communications, and Mindl Cohen, director of translation and collections initiatives, discuss all things Yiddish translation.
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Harold Bloom: The Late, Legendary, Literary Scholar
This week we visit with Christa Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, to talk about the oral history interview she recorded with the late, legendary, literary scholar Harold Bloom shortly before his death.
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Yiddish for Dogs
This week we visit with Ann Toback, executive director of The Workmen's Circle in New York City, to hear about their program that brings owners and their trusty dog companions together in Central Park, where they learn some basic commands in Yiddish.
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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.