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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The Abandoned Book: A New Collection of Yiddish Translations
This week we sat down with the Yiddish Book Center's Eitan Kensky to talk about our newest publication, a collection of thirty original translations of Yiddish works.
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Exploring the Roots of Jewish Sounds
From a young age, Judah Cohen was fascinated by the role music can play in shaping one's sense of self.
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Finding Bob Dylan
Seth Rogovoy, author of Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet, talks about Dylan's Jewish roots
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Yiddish Theater in the Digital Age
The Digital Yiddish Theatre Project was founded in 2012 by experts in the field of Yiddish theater, from historians and literary scholars to performers and musicologists.
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Three Generations of Jewish Women and One Graphic Memoir
Flying Couch brings together Amy Kurzweil's own coming-of-age story with the story of her mother, a child psychologist, and her grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.
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Reimagining Matzo
The Brooklyn-based Matzo Project, founded by summer camp friends Kevin Rodriguez and Ashley Albert, aims to make matzo less stale.
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A Century of Yiddish Fiction from the Forward
The stories collected in the newly published Have I Got a Story for You represent a departure from classic Yiddish literature, and a new form of Yiddish mass media that would take the Jewish immigrant community by storm.
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One Year and One Thousand Yiddish Words
After college, while living in Omaha, Nebraska, Max Sparber set out to learn one thousand Yiddish words in a year—and in the process, discovered the richness of Yiddish culture.
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Through a Unique Jewish Lens
Author Lesléa Newman joins us to speak about her prolific writing career and how her books and poetry are informed by her being Jewish and a lesbian.
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Discovering and Translating Yiddish Writer Blume Lempel
Ellen Cassedy joins us to speak about what drew her to Blume Lempel’s stories and gives a taste of her bold, surprising work.