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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Russ & Daughters Delivers When We Need It Most
For 106 years, Russ & Daughters has been an integral part of the history of New York City, a touchstone in the lives of generations, and the torchbearer of Jewish food in America.
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On Women's Writing in Yiddish
Translator and Yiddish literary scholar Anita Norich and Yiddish Book Center director of translation initiatives, Mindl Cohen, join The Shmooze this week to talk about their respective, recently published articles about women's writing in Yiddish.
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Modern Jewish Literature in the Classroom
Lesley Yalen joined us recently to talk about her work as co-editor of teachgreatjewishbooks.org, the Yiddish Book Center's site that provides a trove of resource kits designed to help teachers bring modern Jewish literature into their classrooms.
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Eli Rosen and His Role on the Hit Series Unorthodox
This week we visit with Eli Rosen to talk about his work on the Netflix hit series Unorthodox. Our conversation touches on all that went into the making of this series - and his role as the Yiddish consultant.
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Yiddish OCR: An Account of Some Amazing Finds
Sophia Shoulson, the Yiddish Book Center's 2019–2020 Richard S. Herman Fellow and a senior fellow working in bibliography, joins us to talk about how she's been using Yiddish OCR for her research and some of the amazing finds she's made.
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Third Seder: Adapting this Tradition Online in 2020
Rabbi Avram Mlotek visits with The Shmooze to talk about the tradition of the Third Seder and how, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, he's found a way to celebrate this tradition with an online international Yiddish cultural.
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Bam, Crack, Dot: Mah Jongg and Its Jewish-American Roots
Melissa Martens Yaverbaum, executive director of the Council of American Jewish Museums and curator of Project Mah Jongg, chats with us about Mah Jongg, a game more widely known than played or understood.
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The Outback Quest of Yiddish Poet Melekh Ravitsh
Author Anna Epstein visits with us from her home in Australia to talk about her recently published book about Yiddish poet Melekh Ravitsh.
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Diary of a Lonely Girl: Jessica Kirzane Translates Miriam Karpilove
We talk with Yiddish translator Jessica Kirzane about her translation of Miriam Karpilove's Diary of a Lonely Girl, which explores issues of women's empowerment and disempowerment around sexuality and politics in early twentieth-century New York.
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Yiddish in Poland: The Contemporary Scene
From Warsaw, Poland, Gabe Miner joins us on The Shmooze to chat about the current Yiddish scene in Poland.