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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Anita Norich's Newly Translated A Jewish Refugee in New York
This week on The Shmooze we visit with Anita Norich to talk about the recently published A Jewish Refugee in New York by Kadia Molodovsky, which she translated.
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Caraid O'Brien: Yiddish Translator, Actor, and Writer
Caraid O'Brien joined us in the studio this week to discuss her career as a writer, Yiddish translator, and performer since learning Yiddish as a Yiddish Book Center intern in 1994.
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Zangwill's Spitalfields and London's East End
Nadia Valman visits with us to talk about her walking tour of Zangwill's Spitalfields, the Jewish immigrant neighborhood of Victorian Spitalfield.
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Seth Rogovoy Talks All Things Klezmer and Yidstock
Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock's artistic director and the author of The Essential Klezmer, joins us to talk about Yidstock 2019, the Yiddish Book Center's annual summer music festival.
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The Story Behind Newly Translated Yiddish Correspondence
Mindl Cohen joins us on The Shmooze to talk about the "2019 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue," a collection of letters and stories about letters.
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Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays
Chava Rosenfarb's daughter and translator, Goldie Morgentaler, visits with us this week to talk about the recently released Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays.
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Inside "Hankus's Closet"
Hankus Netsky joins us to share the finds that he and Yiddish Book Center staff unearthed as they cleared out a closet at the Yiddish Book Center.
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A Conversation with Daniel Kahn
Detroit-born, Berlin-based singer/songwriter, polyglot poet, translator and activist Daniel Kahn joins us on The Shmooze for an expansive conversation about his work as a songwriter, Yiddish culture, klezmer, and Yidstock.
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Considering Jewish Children's Literature
Meredith Lewis visits with us during Tent: Children's Literature, a week-long retreat for emerging and mid-career writers and author-illustrators of board books, picture books, early chapter books, and middle-grade fiction.
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Dr. Pamela Nadell on America’s Jewish Women
This week, Lisa Newman talks to Dr. Pamela Nadell about her book, America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today.