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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Author Elissa Bemporad: Legacy of Blood
Elissa Bemporad speaks with us about her latest book, Legacy of Blood," which traces the legacies of the two classical and most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the early 1960s.
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Yiddish Comes to America: A Collection of Newly Translated Work
The Shmooze catches up with the Yiddish Book Center's director of translation initiatives, Mindl Cohen, to talk about the 2020 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue.
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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.
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Remembering Jerry Stiller
In 2012 Caraid O'Brien interviewed actor Jerry Stiller for WBAI radio. She joins us on The Shmooze to talk about that interview and her friendship with the actor.
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Russ & Daughters Delivers When We Need It Most
For 106 years, Russ & Daughters has been an integral part of the history of New York City, a touchstone in the lives of generations, and the torchbearer of Jewish food in America.
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On Women's Writing in Yiddish
Translator and Yiddish literary scholar Anita Norich and Yiddish Book Center director of translation initiatives, Mindl Cohen, join The Shmooze this week to talk about their respective, recently published articles about women's writing in Yiddish.
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Modern Jewish Literature in the Classroom
Lesley Yalen joined us recently to talk about her work as co-editor of teachgreatjewishbooks.org, the Yiddish Book Center's site that provides a trove of resource kits designed to help teachers bring modern Jewish literature into their classrooms.
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Eli Rosen and His Role on the Hit Series Unorthodox
This week we visit with Eli Rosen to talk about his work on the Netflix hit series Unorthodox. Our conversation touches on all that went into the making of this series - and his role as the Yiddish consultant.
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Yiddish OCR: An Account of Some Amazing Finds
Sophia Shoulson, the Yiddish Book Center's 2019–2020 Richard S. Herman Fellow and a senior fellow working in bibliography, joins us to talk about how she's been using Yiddish OCR for her research and some of the amazing finds she's made.
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Third Seder: Adapting this Tradition Online in 2020
Rabbi Avram Mlotek visits with The Shmooze to talk about the tradition of the Third Seder and how, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, he's found a way to celebrate this tradition with an online international Yiddish cultural.