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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David Stromberg’s In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times
David Stromberg, a self-described Yiddish-activist, discusses his latest book, In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times, a collection of newly translated Yiddish stories for readers of all ages.
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New York's Jewish Photographers
Professor Deborah Dash Moore discusses the cluster of New York Jewish photographers who pictured the city, their home, in the middle decades of the 20th century.
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Discovering and Translating Yiddish Writer Yenta Mash
Ellen Cassedy speaks with us about Yenta Mash - a master chronicler of exile- and the collection of her stories which Cassedy has newly translated from the Yiddish.
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The Pied-Piper of Yiddish Dance
Steve Weintraub left the dance floor long enough to join us in studio to talk about Yiddish dance.
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Hankus Netsky on "The Shmooze"
Hankus Netsky, founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, dropped by the studio to chat about the roots of Yiddish music and his work as a musician, teacher, and ethnomusicologist.
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A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture
In a conversation with Shachar M. Pinsker we learn about the place of coffeehouses in the creation of modern Jewish culture from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.
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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.