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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Jewish Champions in the Golden Age of Boxing
Boxing historian Mike Silver, author of Stars in the Ring: Jewish Champions in the Golden Age of Boxing: A Photographic History, talks about the all-but-forgotten history of Jewish boxers from the 1890s to the 1950s.
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How Klezmer Defined a Community
Hankus Netsky tells us about his recent book Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia, a portrait of the folk music and traditions of the city’s Jewish community.
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Eleanor Reissa Keeps Yiddish Alive through Music and Theater
The queen of Yiddish cabaret, Eleanor Reissa, is a Brooklyn-born native Yiddish speaker whose work in theater garnered her a Tony Award nomination and propelled her into the front ranks of Yiddish theater and music.
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The Remarkable Life—and Afterlife—of Sholem Aleichem
The new website sholemaleichem.org considers the life and work of the great Yiddish writer on his hundredth yortsayt. Jeremy Dauber and Sam Ball talk about the project’s use of exciting multimedia, and about the writer’s formidable legacy.
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Bashevis Singer and His Translators
Over his career, Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer worked with dozens of female translators, with whom he developed close—and often complicated—relationships.
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A New Haggadah for a New World
Ilan Stavans talks about his latest book, The New World Haggadah, a contemporary take on the Jewish experience from Moses to the Americas, and discusses why a multicultural, multilingual Haggadah is so important for today’s seder.
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Reports from the Wartime Ghettos, Now in English Translation
As journalists writing in the wartime Polish ghettos, Peretz Opoczynski and Josef Zelkowicz captured the anxiety and uncertainty of daily life for Jews with breathtaking immediacy.
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Bringing Jewish Culture into the Classroom
At the Yiddish Book Center's Great Jewish Books Teacher Workshop, educators from around the country work together to develop curricula to bring modern Jewish literature and culture into their classrooms.
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A Town Known as Auschwitz
Shiri B. Sandler, curator of the exhibit A Town Known as Auschwitz, discusses the rich history of the town and its Jewish residents from the sixteenth century through the post-war period.
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The Stories Behind Favorite Hanukkah Recipes
Author Tina Wasserman visits with us to discuss some traditional Hanukkah recipes and the histories behind them.