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The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast

Yiddish Book Center

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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Episode 0220: "A Conversation with Daniel Kahn"

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2019/05/22

Detroit-born, Berlin-based singer/songwriter, polyglot poet, translator and activist Daniel Kahn joins us on The Shmooze for an expansive conversation about his work as a songwriter, Yiddish culture, klezmer, and Yidstock. We also have a chance to talk about cultural transmission, artistic collaborations, and some of what informs his work. Episode 0220 May 22, 2019 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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Episode 0219: "Considering Jewish Children's Literature"

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2019/05/07

Meredith Lewis, director of content, education, and family experience for PJ Library in North America, visits with us during Tent: Children's Literature - the week-long retreat for emerging and mid-career writers and author-illustrators of board books, picture books, early chapter books, and middle-grade fiction. She talks about her work with PJ Library, Jewish children's literature, and what's been happening at the Yiddish Book Center's Tent: Children's Literature workshop. Episode 0219 May 12,

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Episode 0218: "Dr. Pamela Nadell on 'America's Jewish...

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2019/04/18

Episode 0218: "Dr. Pamela Nadell on 'America's Jewish Women'" by Yiddish Book Center

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Episode 0217: "Mikhail Krutikov on the Enigmatic Der...

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2019/04/12

This week on The Shmooze, Lisa Newman talks to Mikail Krutikov, Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Professor Krutikov discusses the life and work of enigmatic Yiddish writer Der Nister (“The Recluse”). Professor Kruitkov will be leading the weekend program “Between Fantasy and Reality: The Writings of Der Nister” at the Yiddish

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Episode 0216: "Alana Newhouse on 'The 100 Most Jewish...

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2019/04/04

This week on The Shmooze, Lisa Newman speaks with Alana Newhouse, Founder and Editor of Tablet Magazine about her book, "The 100 Most Jewish Foods: A Highly Debatable List." Newhouse speaks powerfully to the role that food has always played in the religious, cultural, and political lives of Jews throughout the world. She also shares some of the background about the book’s essays, recipes, stories, and contributors who include: Ruth Reichl, Joan Nathan, Michael Solomonov, Yotam Ottolenghi, Tom

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Episode 0215: "'Grains of Wheat': Abigail Weaver on...

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2019/03/21

This week, Lisa Newman talks to Smith College senior Abigail Weaver about "Grains of Wheat," her play about the Jewish intellectuals, known as the Paper Brigade, who worked to hide stores of cultural materials from Nazi forces in the Vilna ghetto. "Grains of Wheat" is the product of Weaver's years of interest in Yiddish, including a class visit to Vilna, and combines her Theater and Jewish Studies majors. Weaver discusses the tensions inherent in writing a work of historical fiction, the fortitude

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Episode 0214: "Alyssa Quint on 'The Rise of Modern...

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2019/03/20

Alyssa Quint joins us this week to talk about her new book, “The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater.” Quint, a senior scholar at YIVO Institute and a contributor to the Digital Yiddish Theater Project, examines the beginnings of Yiddish-language theater and delves into one of Yiddish theater’s brilliant and polarizing figures, Avrom Goldfaden. Born in 1840, Goldfaden came from humble beginnings to become an immensely popular playwright and producer, drawing both the respect and ire of fellow Yiddish

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Episode 213: "'Vilna:' The Play"

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2019/02/26

This week we visit with Ira Fuchs. Ira began writing plays in college. After graduating from college Ira spent 45 years working in computer technology. In 2016, he returned to writing plays and enrolled in a six week play writing workshop at Hollins University. One assignment was to write a full-length play, in three days, based on a news article published that day. In the "New York Times" was a story about the discovery of an escape tunnel in the Ponar death pits outside of Vilnius. Ira shares the

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00:28:25

Episode 212: "Mendel Mann’s 'Seeds in the Desert': In...

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2019/02/13

Heather Valencia joins us from Scotland to talk about her newly published translation of "Seeds in the Desert." Available for the first time in translation, Mendel Mann’s stories follow his life in reverse, from Israel in the 1950s to his experiences in the post-War Soviet Union and his childhood in Poland. Heather talks about Mann’s indelible portraits of survivors as they confront the past and struggle to create a meaningful existence in the fledgling state of Israel. Episode 0212 February 14,

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Episode 211: "Yiddish Theater's Vilna Troupe"

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2019/02/08

Debra Caplan, Yiddish theater historian and Assistant Professor of Theater at Baruch College, joins us this week to discuss her book, "Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy." We chat about the Vilna Troupe in its early years, their groundbreaking production of The Dybbuk, and more. Episode 0211 February 8, 2019 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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Episode 0210: "Andrea Simon on 'Angel Wagenstein: Art...

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2019/01/31

Director Andrea Simon joins us to discuss her documentary, Angel Wagenstein: Art is a Weapon. This extraordinary film focuses on the life of Angel Wagenstein, Bulgarian anti-fascist fighter in his youth and film director and author in his later years. Simon speaks with us about Wagenstein, and how his story informs a larger narrative. Episode 0210 January 31, 2019 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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Episode 0209: "The Reading Culture of...

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2019/01/10

Eric L. Goldstein, professor of American and modern Jewish history at Emory University and the Judith London Evans Director of Emory’s Tam Institute for Jewish studies, joins us this week to discuss his current project focused on the reading culture of Yiddish-speaking immigrants to the United States from the late nineteenth century to the interwar period. He explains that, unlike a literary scholar who might concentrate on the literary importance of the works themselves, he’s interested in

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Episode 0208: "The Shraybmashin-brigade: In Search of...

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2019/01/03

Yiddish Book Center Fellows Adah Hetko and Sophia Shoulson discuss their work with typewriters for the Yiddish Book Center's collection. As we put out the call for these special machines, they give us a peek into the world of Yiddish typewriters, explaining their past and present significance, the history of the keyboard layout, and how to distinguish between a Hebrew and a Yiddish typewriter. Episode 0208 January 4, 2019 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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Episode 0207: "'A New Year's Eve State of Mind': Ri...

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2018/12/25

We caught up with Ri J. Turner, a 2014 Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow, to chat about her translation of A.S. Lirik’s "A New Year's Eve State of Mind.” An M.A. student in the Department of Yiddish at Hebrew University, Ri is currently studying as a graduate exchange student at Medem Library in Paris, France. She joins us on the phone from Paris to discuss her work as a Yiddish translator, how she found Lirik’s piece, translating work by Yiddish writer Der Tunkeler, and the Yiddish scene in

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Episode 0206: "The Jewish Deli and the Third Space: A...

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2018/12/19

Ted Merwin visits on The Shmooze this week to discuss his recently published book "Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli." Merwin, the founding director of the Milton B. Asbell Center for Jewish Life and associate professor of Religion and Judaic Studies at Dickinson College, goes against the grain (so to speak), considering the role of the deli for the second and third generations: the children of Jewish immigrants. Episode 0206 December 19, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst,

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Episode 0205: "David R. Gillham’s 'Annelies':...

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2018/12/12

David R. Gillham, the New York Times bestselling author of "City of Women," joins us on "The Shmooze" this week to discuss his forthcoming novel, "Annelies." He shares a glimpse into the past six years which he has spent researching Anne Frank, recognizing her as the cultural icon whose diary painted a vivid picture of the Holocaust, and also as a person — a precocious young girl with a rich inner life and tremendous skill as a writer. David R. Gillham discusses what it means to approach her story

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Episode 0204: "Gerri Chanel’s 'Saving Mona Lisa'"

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2018/12/05

Gerri Chanel, a prize-winning freelance journalist, joins us this week to discuss "Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis." In her compelling book, Gerri follows heroic efforts in France to protect the Louvre’s masterpieces during World War II. Episode 0204 December 6, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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Episode 0203: "Jamie Bernstein: On Being 'Famous...

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2018/11/28

Jamie Bernstein joins us to talk about her recently published memoir "Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein." We hear from Jamie about her experience growing up in the mid-twentieth century with parents Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre. Our conversation touches on everything from life with the famous maestro to Jewishness, family traditions, and the story behind her memoir’s title. Episode 0203 November 29, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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Episode 0202: "From the Yiddish Book Center's...

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2018/11/21

Yiddish Book Center fellows Sophia Shoulson and Sarah Quiat searched the Center’s collection for Thanksgiving-related content. They join us on "The Shmooze" to share what they discovered, and from Yiddish cookbooks to a children’s story featuring a turkey, we learn how food, stories, and traditions figured into the Jewish immigrant’s experience. Episode 0202 November 21, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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Episode 0201: "Ilan Stavans and the Film 'My Mexican...

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2018/11/12

Ilan Stavans stopped by the studio this week to discuss “My Mexican Shivah,” a film based on one of his stories. An exploration of family tensions, the film is set in Polanco, a Jewish quarter of Mexico City, and documents a man’s death and the celebration of his life that follows. The gentle comedy engages the complexity of Mexican-Jewish identity in the context of death rituals. Episode 0201 November 14, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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