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.
Previous episodes
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
This week The Shmooze visited with Ilan Stavans, co-editor of How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish—a Great Jewish Books Club 2022 selection.
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Ripped Away
Award-winning author Shirley Vernick joins The Shmooze to talk about Ripped Away, her latest book, which is based on real historical events, including the Jack the Ripper crimes, the inquests, and the accusations against immigrants.
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Farbindungen: The Roots of Yiddish Networking
On The Shmooze this week we visit with Farbindungen Conference organizers Sarah Biskowitz and Carolyn Beard to learn about the two-day virtual conference, for early career Yiddish scholars
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Musterverk fun der yidisher literatur (Masterworks of Yiddish Literature)
Yiddish Book Center bibliography and collections manager Rachelle Grossman sits down with The Shmooze to share news of the digitization and addition of the 100-volume Musterverk fun der yidisher literatur.
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The Golden Peacock: The Voice of the Yiddish Writer
This week we visit with Dr. Sheva Zucker to talk about her latest book. The Golden Peacock is a bilingual edition that includes the work of twelve Yiddish writers.
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Translating Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry
Literary translator and editor Peter Constantine joins The Shmooze to talk about his work translating Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry—a 2022 Great Jewish Books Club selection.
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American Comics: A History with Jeremy Dauber
This week Jeremy Dauber joins The Shmooze to talk about his recently published American Comics: A History. The book tells the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels.
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Italian Opera for the Yiddish-Speaking Masses in Early 20th-Century America
On The Shmooze, Daniela Smolov Levy and Mark Kligman talk about their five-part lecture series that reveals how popular Italian opera was aimed not only at Italian immigrants and native-born Americans but also the Yiddish-speaking public.
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DI FROYEN (THE WOMEN) ON STAGE
Melissa Weisz, Malky Goldman, and Rachel Botchan join us on The Shmooze to talk about their upcoming performance of Di Froyen (The Women), adapted by Weisz and Goldman, and directed by Botchan.
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Justin Cammy on Avrom Sutzkever’s From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg
Justin Cammy visited with The Shmooze to talk about his newly published translation of Avrom Sutzkever’s From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg.