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Jewish Film Festival Favorites for Home Streaming

The Shmooze recently caught up with Deb Krivoy, director of the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival (PVJFF), to ask her for a list of past Festival favorites that can be streamed at home.

May 15, 2020

Episode 259

31 min

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David Stromberg’s "In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times"

David Stromberg, a self-described Yiddish-activist, discusses his latest book, "In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times," a collection of newly translated Yiddish stories for readers of all ages.

Oct 21, 2018

Episode 198

26 min
New York's Jewish Photographers

Professor Deborah Dash Moore, who will lead the Yiddish Book Center's upcoming weekend course (October 26-28, 2018), discusses the cluster of New York Jewish photographers who pictured the city, their home, in the middle decades of the 20th century.

Sep 30, 2018

Episode 197

26 min
Discovering and Translating Yiddish Writer Yenta Mash

Ellen Cassedy speaks with us about Yenta Mash - a master chronicler of exile- and the collection of her stories which Cassedy has newly translated from the Yiddish.

Sep 13, 2018

Episode 196

27 min
The Pied-Piper of Yiddish Dance

Steve Weintraub left the dance floor long enough to join us in studio to talk about Yiddish dance.

Aug 23, 2018

Episode 195

22 min
Hankus Netsky on "The Shmooze"

Hankus Netsky, founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, dropped by the studio to chat about the roots of Yiddish music and his work as a musician, teacher, and ethnomusicologist.

Aug 21, 2018

Episode 194

26 min
A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture

In a conversation with Shachar M. Pinsker we learn about the place of coffeehouses in the creation of modern Jewish culture from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.

Aug 02, 2018

Episode 193

30 min
Shmoozing with Anthony Russell and Dmitri Gaskin

This week we visit with Yiddish vocalist Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and pianist/accordionist Dmitri Gaskin.

Jul 20, 2018

Episode 192

27 min
The Shmooze: Live at Yidstock

Podcast Producer and Yiddish Book Center Fellow Zeke Levine caught up with a few of the many performers at Yidstock 2018.

Jul 13, 2018

Episode 191

23 min
On Press with Pakn Treger: The Making of the Magazine

Producer Zeke Levine and host Lisa Newman take The Shmooze on the road to Studley Press in Dalton, Massachusetts, where the summer issue of Pakn Treger, the Yiddish Book Center’s English-language magazine, is being printed.

Jun 22, 2018

Episode 190

25 min
Yiddish Immigrant Life in Song and Verse

Vivi Lachs joins us to talk about her newly published book, Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914.

Jun 14, 2018

Episode 189

28 min

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