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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.
What's Tent?
Aaron Lansky visits with Tent's program director, Josh Lambert, to discuss the Yiddish Book Center's new program.
Tori Avey on Making the Perfect Latke
Tori Avey visits with us to talk about Jewish food and to share tips on making the perfect latke.
Alice Hoffman: "The Museum of Extraordinary Things"
We visit with author Alice Hoffman to talk about her latest work, "The Museum of Extraordinary Things."
Editors Answer the Question: "Where were the women writers?"
Editors Eitan Kensky and Sadie Gold-Shapiro sit down to talk about a special "Pakn Treger Translation Issue" devoted to writing by women.
Seth Rogovoy Chats about Yidstock ‘21
This week on The Shmooze Seth Rogovoy talks about the upcoming (July 11) virtual YIDSTOCK: The Festival of New Yiddish Music. The 75-minute virtual event features as Seth tell us “tons more groovy wonderful musicians.”
An Exhibit Tells the Universal Story of the Emigrant
Curator Patricia Klindienst discusses how a simple postcard led her to reconstruct the story of Abram Spiwak and Sophie Schochetman - their immigration from Czarist Russia to America, their courtship, marriage, and the making of their life together.
Writer Ilan Stavans Discusses His Fotonovela [email protected]:53am
Ilan Stavans sits down with Josh Lambert to answer questions about the concept behind his documentary-style fotonovela, [email protected]:53am, a fictional meditation of the two hours before the 1994 terrorist attack on the Jewish community center in Buenos...
Enhanced Access to Hundreds of Oral Histories
We visit with Christa Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, to talk about the new enhanced features to the oral history collection made possible through the 2017–2020 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.
Recommended Reading
Emma Morgenstern, director of the Jewish Book Council Network, shares a few recently published recommended reads.
The Story of He'Brew: The Chosen Beer
Jeremy Cowan tells us how he combined his love of craft beer and of Jewish culture and literature to create his Shmaltz Brewing Company.
By Design: A New Logo
Why a goat? Discover the story of how and why the Yiddish Book Center's new logo evolved to include a tsigele - a little goat.
The Mission to Construct a Replica of a Wooden Synagogue
Rick Brown and his team are constructing an 85% scale model of a wooden synagogue inside the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
Who Grace Paley Was
Nora Paley, the co-editor of the recently published A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry, talks about the life and work of her mother, writer Grace Paley.
Unearthing Memories in the Lodz Ghetto
This week we are joined by Kristen Gresh, curator of the new exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston: "Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross."
Danny Kaye: A look at the early years of the famed tummler
In a visit with film historian Bruce Lawton, we learn about the early work of Danny Kaye - from his first appearances on stages in the Borscht Belt to his screen debut in four little known 'two-reelers'.
JT Waldman Talks Comic Books and Judaism
Comic book creator and digital designer JT Waldman visited The Shmooze’s studio to answer our questions about his work, the intersection of comic books and Judaism, the graphic novel, and the roots of Jewishness in visual storytelling.
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.
Delving Into the Life and Work of Itzik Manger
Professor Efrat Gal- Ed discusses the work of researching and writing a biography on Yiddish writer Itzik Manger.
Collecting Stories
Christa Whitney, the Center's Wexler Oral History Project director, talks about her experience with the project, collecting stories, and understanding the art of listening.