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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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.
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in Yiddish
The Shmooze caught up with Yiddish translator Arun Viswanath to learn about the story of his work translating Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone into Yiddish.
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Zamlers: Profiles of Volunteer Book Collectors: Eric Ellman
To celebrate the Yiddish Book Center's 40th anniversary in 2020, we're looking back at the Center's storied history. As part of this effort, we wanted to record interviews with our zamlers (volunteer book collectors), continuing with zamler Eric Ellman.
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Zamlers: Profiles of Volunteer Book Collectors: Julie Plaut Mahoney
To celebrate the Yiddish Book Center's 40th anniversary in 2020, we're looking back at the Center's storied history. As part of this effort, we wanted to record interviews with our zamlers (volunteer book collectors).
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Zamlers: Profiles of Volunteer Book Collectors
Today's episode is the first in our series of conversations with Yiddish Book Center zamlers (volunteer book collectors), beginning with an interview with Jack Hirschberg.
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Co-editors Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert visit with The Shmooze to talk about their newly released anthology How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish.
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Judaism Unbound Podcast Considers Yiddish in America
This week we visit with Daniel Libenson, host of the "Judaism Unbound" podcast. Daniel talks about the launch of a new series of episodes entitled "Yiddish in America," presented in partnership with the Yiddish Book Center's Decade of Discovery.
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Rokhl Kafrissen Visits with The Shmooze
The Shmooze caught up with Rokhl Kafrissen—journalist, playwright, and Jewish world gadfly—in New York.
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Riffing with Alex Weiser
In a conversation with Alex Weiser, composer and the director of public programs at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, we learn about his debut album, And All the Days Were Purple.
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A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America
This week on The Shmooze, we visit with Kirsten Fermaglich, author of A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America, a groundbreaking history of the practice of Jewish name changing in the 20th century.