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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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in Conversation
Performance and Jewish studies scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett joins us for a lively and informative conversation about her work as the Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
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9to5: The Story of a Movement
Writer and Yiddish translator Ellen Cassedy talks with The Shmooze about the new documentary 9to5: The Story of a Movement and her role in the feminist labor movement at the center of this story.
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Hankus Netsky: 40 Years in Yiddishland
Hankus Netsky visits with The Shmooze to chat about "40 Years in Yiddishland: The Yiddish Book Center Celebrates the Klezmer Conservatory Band," a special, upcoming virtual public program celebrating the KCB and the Yiddish Book Center.
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Teaching Jewish American Literature
Rachel Rubinstein talks with us about Teaching Jewish American Literature, a newly published collection of essays she co-edited with Roberta Rosenberg which address how to teach questions of personal identity and national boundaries.
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Yiddish in Israel: A History
This week we visit with author Rachel Rojanski to talk about her recently published Yiddish in Israel: A History.
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Jews in Space
This week we're joined by Joanna Church, director of collections and exhibits at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, to talk about the newly opened exhibit Jews In Space: Members of the Tribe in Orbit.
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The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema
Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times and NPR, visits with The Shmooze to talk about the newly released The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema (Blu-ray).
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Yiddish Actor and Yiddishist Shane Baker
Acclaimed Yiddish actor Shane Baker has brought Yiddish theater, classes, and cultural events to every continent. He chats with The Shmooze about his work both on and off the Yiddish stage.
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The Drowning Shore: A Cantata in Yiddish and Scottish
London-based singer Clara Kanter and composer Alastair White visit with us to talk about The Drowning Shore, their newly released cantata, which threads together Sholem Asch's classic God of Vengeance with an original Scots-English text.
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Enhanced Access to Hundreds of Oral Histories
We visit with Christa Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, to talk about the new enhanced features to the oral history collection made possible through the 2017–2020 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.