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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Glasgow's Yiddish Pink Peacock Café
Morgan Holleb and Joe Isaac talk about how they came to co-found Glasgow's new Pink Peacock Café - a queer, Yiddish-speaking kosher café operated by Jewish self-described anarchists where customers will "pay what they can."
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Rachmil Bryks' Holocaust Memoir Triptych
As a 2018 Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub translated three memoirs by Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912–1974) resulting in the recently published May God Avenge Their Blood: A Holocaust Memoir Triptych.
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"A Revolution in Yiddish-Language Pedagogy": Introducing The New Yiddish Textbook
Asya Vaisman Schulman, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Yiddish Language Institute, visits with The Shmooze to talk about the forthcoming release of In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook (White Goat Press, 2020).
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KlezKanada at Twenty-Five
KlezKanada's executive director, Sebastian Schulman, visits with us to talk about the history of KlezKanada, its community, and the plans for the 25th Anniversary edition of its annual summer festival, which will be presented virtually this year.
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Ilan Stavans's The Seventh Heaven
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling across a dozen countries in Latin America in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region for his latest book, The Seventh Heaven.
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Jack Berger's Work Translating Yizkor Books
Jack Berger has been working on the translation of Yizkor books since the early 1990s. Yizkor (memorial) books document the history of Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust.
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On Rosenfeld and Rivals: Rachel Mines Talks Translation
Rachel Mines' translation of The Rivals and Other Stories introduces nineteen of Jonah Rosenfeld's Yiddish-language short stories to an English-reading audience.
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Mendel Osherowitch's Account of Soviet Ukraine in 1932
Lubomyr Luciuk spoke with The Shmooze about the recent release of his edited volume How People Live in Soviet Russia: Impressions from a Journey.
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Dylan, Babylon Berlin, and Camus: Seth Rogovoy's Recommendations
This week we decided to ask cultural critic, author, and music enthusiast Seth Rogovoy to share his recommendations on what to read, watch, and listen to.
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Yiddish Theater Lab: Reviving the Forgotten Works of the Yiddish Theater
The Shmooze visited with Adam Immerwahr, artistic director of Theater J, the nation's largest and most prominent Jewish theater, to talk about Theater J's Yiddish Theater Lab.