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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 380: Yiddish: A Global Culture live on...

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2024/09/26

David Mazower, chief-curator and writer of "Yiddish: A Global Culture," and Caleb Sher, the Yiddish Book Center’s Richard S. Herman Endowed Senior Fellow, join "The Shmooze" to share the news that the Center’s groundbreaking exhibition, "Yiddish: A Global Culture," is now live on the Bloomberg Connects app. The free, downloadable app allows users to explore expert-curated guides from some 550 selected cultural institutions across the globe in the palm of their hand. David and Caleb share some of

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00:24:49

Episode 379: The Book of Izzy

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2024/08/27

Novelist Ben Gonshor joins "The Shmooze" to talk about his debut novel, "The Book of Izzy." The book’s main character, Izzy, is a writer at wit’s end in life and on the verge of a complete breakdown with his career in wedding planning. Following an encounter with a mysterious bird seemingly visible only to him, he agrees to take on the leading role in an amateur production of the greatest play in all of the Yiddish theater: "The Dybbuk," a gothic tale of destiny, possession, and the triumph of love

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00:23:53

Episode 378: Displaced Persons: A Multilayered...

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2024/08/22

Writer Joan Leegant joined "The Shmooze" to talk about her latest book, "Displaced Persons," a collection of rich, multilayered short stories, half set in Israel, half among Jewish families in the States. The fictional stories explore exile, belonging, and what it means to call a place home.Episode 378 August 22, 2024 Amherst, MA

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00:26:56

Episode 377: Ashkenazi Folk Magic at the Threshold

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2024/08/14

Rokhl Kafrissen—journalist, teacher, playwright, and 2022 winner of the prestigious Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish prize—sits down with "The Shmooze" this week to talk about her upcoming Yiddish Book Center online course “Sacred Time and Liminal Space: Ashkenazi Folk Magic at the Threshold.” Rokhl talks about the unique Eastern European women’s folk magic ritual known as "feldmestn:" measuring a cemetery (and its graves) to make special holiday candles. In conversation she shares other

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00:21:00

Episode 0376: Adapted for a Staged Reading: Sholem...

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2024/08/07

Translator and adapter Weaver sits down with "The Shmooze" to talk about the drama group Theater Between Addresses and its upcoming immersive, staged reading of Sholem Asch’s "Shabbtai Tsvi," which Weaver translated and adapted. Never before performed in its entirety, the play shows the meteoric rise and tragic fall of Shabbtai Tsvi, the 17th-century Ottoman Jewish mystic whose messianic aspirations attracted a following of thousands of Jews from every corner of the earth. The reading will take

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00:28:51

Episode 0375: The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen

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2024/07/31

This week on "The Shmooze" we visit with Rebecca (Rivke) Margolis, author of "The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen: Dybbuks, Demons and Haunted Jewish Pasts." In conversation we talk about how the book traces the transformation of the figure of the dybbuk—a soul of the dead possessing the living—from folklore to 1930s Polish Yiddish cinema to global contemporary media. We also explore how translated and subtitled Yiddish dialogue reimagines Jewish lore and tells new stories, where the supernatural

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00:22:42

Episode 0374: Klezkanada’s Summer Retreat

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2024/07/25

Avia Moore and Sebastian Schulman join "The Shmooze" for a lively conversation about all things Klezakanda. As Avia shares, KlezKanada “fosters a community where the vibrant living tradition of Yiddish culture and Jewish music continues to thrive.” This year’s lineup includes workshops on Yiddish song, dance, and language learning as well as a translation workshop, a cabaret, and a three-part talk on Quebec in Yiddish and Yiddish in Quebec.The Yiddish Book Center is a co-sponsor of KlezKanada

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00:15:22

Episode 0373: Nathan-ism: The Story of Artist Nathan...

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2024/06/11

Filmaker Elan Golod visits with "The Shmooze" to talk about his documentary "Nathan-ism." The film tells the story of Nathan Hilu, the son of Syrian Jewish immigrants to New York who received a life-changing assignment from the U.S. Army: to guard the top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials. This experience fueled a lifetime of artistic inspiration for Nathan, a virtually unknown outsider artist who spent the next 70 years obsessively creating a visual narrative from his memories.Episode

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00:16:40

Episode 0372: The Yiddish Folksong Project

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2024/06/06

Kimberly Lazzeri joins "The Shmooze" to talk about the recently released "Yiddish Folksong Project Anthology." Kimberly shares the story behind this collection of Robert De Cormier’s folksong arrangements, which had been in a storage closet for over forty years. This is the first-ever publication of De Cormier’s arrangements of Yiddish folksongs and the first-ever large body of Yiddish folksong repertoire arranged in the classical style for performance on the concert or recital stage. Episode

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00:27:18

Episode 0371: After 80 Years Postcards Find Their Way...

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2024/05/29

Piotr Nazaruk and Karla McCabe joined "The Shmooze" to tell the story of the thirty-six postcards that Karla recently hand-delivered to Pitor Nazaruk at a ceremony in Lublin, Poland. Karla explains how this collection of postcards were looted from the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in the war and now, eighty years later, have found their way back home.Episode 371 May 29, 2024 Amherst, MA

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00:20:51

Episode 0370: Sivan Slapak’s Here Is Still Here

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2024/05/13

Writer Sivan Slapak visits with "The Shmooze" to talk about her debut collection, "Here Is Still Here." The stories provide a layered exploration of human connection and the complexities of identity. In conversation, Sivan shares how these stories—which take readers from Montreal to Jerusalem and back again as the main character navigates checkpoints and borders, home and exile, milestones and disappointment, and love and loss—are threaded together.Episode 370 May 13, 2024 Amherst, MA

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00:36:13

Episode 0369: Yiddish Culture in America

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2024/04/21

"The Shmooze" visits with Sebastian Schulman for a chat about Yiddish culture in America as we celebrate American Jewish Heritage Month. In conversation he shares some of what he’s found on the Yiddish Book Center’s website related to the Jewish American experience—Yiddish writers in America, Jewish food, Yiddish film, immigration, activism, and more.Episode 369 April 28, 2024 Amherst, MA

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00:20:36

Episode 0368: in a dark blue night: two song cycles...

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2024/03/13

Alex Weiser visits with "The Shmooze" to talk about his latest work, "in a dark blue night," consisting of two connected song cycles. The first, “in a dark blue night,” sets to music modernist Yiddish poetry about New York City at night, all written by Jewish immigrant poets at the turn of the 20th century. The second, “Coney Island Days,” transforms an oral history with his late grandmother, Irene Weiser, into a musical exploration of the time when Jews became Americans and the way that humble,

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00:25:15

Episode 0367: The Yiddish Book Center’s Bossie...

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2024/03/12

Sonia Bloom and Judith Liskin-Gasparro speak to "The Shmooze" about Yiddish-language learning, their work in the field, and their participation at the Yiddish Book Center’s upcoming Bossie Dubowick YiddishSchool. Episode 367 March 11, 2024 Amherst, MA

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00:24:09

Episode 0366:The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother...

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2024/03/07

Ross Perlin, the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, visits with "The Shmooze" to talk about his new book, "Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York." The book provides a portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet.Episode 366 March 7, 2024 Amherst, MA

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00:20:06

Episode 0365: Across So Many Seas

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2024/02/05

Author Ruth Behar speaks with "The Shmooze" about "Across So Many Seas." Her latest book was inspired by Behar’s paternal grandmother’s side of the family of Sephardic Jews living in Spain up until the Spanish Inquisition of 1492. Behar used her background as an anthropology professor to make a thoroughly researched and powerful novel about religious persecution and how refugees have been treated throughout history. Episode 365 February 4, 2024 Amherst, MA

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00:23:48

Episode 0364: A Worker’s Yiddish Library on View

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2024/01/25

Marvin Zuckerman and Ruby Elliot Zuckerman join "The Shmooze" to talk about their family’s story, which is featured in the Yiddish Book Center’s new core exhibition, "Yiddish: A Global Culture." As Marvin shares, “In our one-bedroom apartment in the Bronx we had world literature—Georg Brandes, Maupassant, Marx, Darwin, Jack London, Tolstoy—all in Yiddish.” Marvin and his granddaughter Ruby share the experience of traveling together from the West Coast to be part of the exhibition’s opening and to

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00:33:41

Episode 0363: Telling the Story of Yiddish Theater

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2024/01/14

David Mazower, chief curator of the Yiddish Book Center’s core exhibition, "Yiddish: A Global Culture," and Caraid O’Brien, co-curator of the exhibition’s theater section, chat with "The Shmooze" about all things Yiddish theater. You’ll hear how they gathered rare artifacts and stories about the actors, the audiences, and the contemporary Yiddish theater scene. Episode

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00:22:50

Episode 0362: Staging Mikhl Yashinsky’s American...

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2023/12/19

Mikhl Yashinsky is on "The Shmooze" to talk about his new drama "The Gospel According to Chaim," the strange tale of a Jewish writer’s quixotic attempt to publish a controversial book. The New Yiddish Rep, who is producing the play, says this is the first entirely original, full-length American Yiddish drama to be produced for a general audience in seven decades. Episode 362 December 20, 2023 Amherst, MA

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00:25:53

Episode 0361: New in Translation: Yiddish Writer...

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center"s Podcast ·

2023/12/14

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub joins "The Shmooze" to talk about his latest translation, a collection of short stories by Yiddish writer Frume Halpern. These psychologically insightful stories present the lives of protagonists who are working-class poor, social outcasts, and experiencing illness, disability, and racism. Halpern worked as a massage therapist in a hospital, and many of these stories are about those who, like her, work with their hands: workshop and factory workers, piece workers, a shoemaker, a

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