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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Sholem Asch’s The Dead Man’s English-Language Premiere
Translator, actor, and producer Caraid O’Brien discusses her recent radio drama production of Sholem Asch's play The Dead Man, which she translated from the Yiddish.
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Yiddish Women Playwrights Festival
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s associate art director Motl Didner and literary manager Sabina Brukner talk with The Shmooze about their upcoming Yiddish Women Playwrights Festival.
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Judy Batalion and the Untold Story of Jewish Women Resistance Fighters
Judy Batalion joins The Shmooze to talk about the amazing story behind her new book, which began with the discovery of a Yiddish memoir.
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Eleanor Reissa in Conversation
The Shmooze visits with the Tony-nominated director, Broadway actress, prize-winning playwright, and, soon-to-be published author Eleanor Reissa.
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A Wide-Ranging Conversation with Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel
Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel talks with us about her work as a Yiddish singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist, and research librarian specializing in Yiddish language and culture at the New York Public Library.
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The Third Seder Goes Virtual
Rabbi Avram Mlotek joins The Shmooze to talk about the history of the Third Seder, a long-standing Yiddish cultural tradition. Avram lets us in on what's on the bill for this year's virtual Third Seder.
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African American Jewish Cantor Thomas LaRue Jones
This week's guest, Henry Sapoznik, is an award-winning producer, musicologist and performer, and writer in the fields of traditional and popular Yiddish and American music and culture.
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A Recent Find Sheds Light on the Work of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
We invited Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow Matthew Johnson onto The Shmooze to tell us about his recent discovery of the Yiddish writer Moyshe-Leyb Halpern's unfinished poetry.
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Remember the Triangle Fire
We visit with Esther Cohen, a longtime leader of labor culture in New York City and one of the organizers of a memorial to the women who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that took place on March 25, 1911.
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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in Conversation
Performance and Jewish studies scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett joins us for a lively and informative conversation about her work as the Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.