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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 0200: "Marvin Zuckerman on Translation and...

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2018/11/06

Marvin Zuckerman joins "The Shmooze" this week to discuss his translation of Bernard Goldstein’s "Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland." Along the way, he shares stories about his childhood in the Bronx, where he learned how to read and write Yiddish in the Workmen’s Circle afterschool programs and spent time in the company of figures like Chaim Grade, Naftali Gross, and Avrom Reyzen. Episode 0200 November 8, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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Episode 0199: "Photographer Rebecca Lepkoff"

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2018/11/01

Rebecca Lepkoff (1916-2014) was one of the great twentieth century photographers. Her work particularly chronicled the life of New York City’s Jewish neighborhoods. Her husband Eugene and son Daniel dropped by our studio to talk about Rebecca’s life and work from their unique vantage point. Episode 0199 November 1, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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Episode 0198: "David Stromberg’s 'In the Land of...

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2018/10/17

The Shmooze caught up with David Stromberg over dinner at an outdoor café in New York where we learned about 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. David is a self-described Yiddish-activist who worked hard to bring these largely overlooked works to publication. In our conversation, he shared the backstory to these works, Yiddish publishing, and how he found his way to editing this

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00:26:39

Episode 0197: "New York's Jewish Photographers"

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2018/09/30

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. As young men and women, mostly the children of immigrants, they picked up cameras and walked the streets, capturing its human drama. Episode 0197 September 30, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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Episode 0196: "Discovering and Translating Yiddish...

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2018/09/12

In a collection of stories newly translated from the Yiddish by Ellen Cassedy, prize-winning author Yenta Mash traces an arc across continents, upheavals and regime changes, and the phases of a woman’s life from girlhood to old age. Cassedy speaks with us about Yenta Mash – a master chronicler of exile, Mash’s work brings much to the literature of immigration and resilience. Episode 0196 September 12, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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Episode 0195: "The Pied-Piper of Yiddish Dance"

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2018/08/23

Steve Weintraub left the dance floor long enough to join us in studio to talk about Yiddish dance. Steve teaches dance workshops around the world, including at the annual Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music. In our conversation, we learn how Steve found his way to Yiddish dance, how he studied its roots, and how he documented its elements. Episode 0195 August 23, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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Episode 0194: "Hankus Netsky on 'The Shmooze'"

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2018/08/20

Hankus Netsky, chair of New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation Department and 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. As always, our conversation with Hankus is expansive, insightful, informative, and peppered with some great anecdotes. Episode 0194 August 21, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA

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Episode 0193 "A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern...

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2018/08/02

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. Shachar’s newly published book, "A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture," tells the story of the role of the coffeehouse as central to the modern Jewish experience in a time of migration and urbanization, from Odessa, Warsaw, Vienna, and Berlin to New York City and Tel Aviv, and why Jews became their most devoted

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Episode 0192 "Shmoozing with Anthony Russell and...

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2018/07/20

This week we visit with Yiddish vocalist Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and pianist/accordionist Dmitri Gaskin. Together they explore diverse idioms and styles to create their signature contemporary and idiosyncratic new music - set to the works of some of the greatest poets in the Yiddish language. In a lively conversation, we learn about what drew them to Yiddish music and how they’ve been drawing from the roots of Yiddish literature and music to create their unique and amazing work. Episode

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Episode 0191 "The Shmooze: Live at Yidstock"

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2018/07/13

Podcast Producer and Yiddish Book Center Fellow Zeke Levine caught-up with a few of the many performers at Yidstock 2018. Hankus Netsky, Steve Weintraub, and David Krakauer each stopped by our studio to talk all things Yiddish music related, from 78s to Yiddish dance moves. Episode 0191 July 13, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA

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Episode 0190 "On Press with Pakn Treger: The Making...

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2018/06/28

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. On the visit, Zeke asks the questions on many readers’ minds: How does the magazine come together from start to finish? Zeke and Lisa take us behind the scenes of the press, where Zeke poses questions about the printing and binding process, and the many machines he encounters at

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Episode 0189 "Yiddish Immigrant Life in Song and Verse"

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2018/06/14

Vivi Lachs joins us to talk about her newly published book, Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914. Vivi is a social and cultural historian, Yiddishist, and associate research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Drawing from archival material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing, Whitechapel Noise offers a fascinating window into the untold cultural life of the Yiddish East End, positioning London’s Yiddish popular

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Episode 0188 "An Expert’s Guide to Jewish San...

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2018/06/07

This week on The Shmooze, the second in our series of visits with Yiddish Book Center alumni to get an insider’s guide to Jewish and Yiddish culture in their hometown. Aga Ilwicka fills us in on the many Yiddish goings-on in San Francisco and shares a number of suggestions for those interested in contemporary Jewish culture, food, music, and more. Episode 0188 June 8, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA

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Episode 0187 "An Expert’s Guide to Jewish Rhode...

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2018/05/31

The Shmooze is launching the first in what will be a series of visits with Yiddish Book Center alumni to get an insider’s guide to Jewish and Yiddish culture in their hometowns. This week, we visit with Samuel Zerin, a musicologist, music theorist, composer, and pianist, who provides a guide to Jewish Rhode Island. A specialist in early-twentieth-century Jewish musical nationalism, Sam has broader analytical interests in twenty-first-century Yiddish pop songs and Disney music. He’s also an amateur

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Episode 0186 "Sarah Aroeste: Bringing Ladino to the...

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2018/05/23

This week we visit with Sarah Aroeste. Sarah, American-born and trained in classical opera at Westminster Choir College and Yale University, was inspired by her family's Sephardic roots in Greece and Macedonia. She’s spent the last 15 years bringing her contemporary style of original and traditional Ladino music to audiences around the world. On July 15, 2018 she’ll be taking the stage at Yidstock along with Anthony Russell. Episode 0186 May 23, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA

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Episode 0185 "JT Waldman Talks Comic Books and Judaism"

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2018/05/10

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. JT also spoke with us about his landmark graphic novel Megillat Esther (an interpretation of the Book of Esther), as well as his collaboration with legendary comic book writer Harvey Pekar on the graphic novel Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me. Episode 0185 May

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Episode 0184 "Miriam Udel on Yiddish Children’s...

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2018/05/04

This week we visit with Miriam Udel, Associate Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Emory University. Miriam talks with us about her research and her teaching, which focus on Jewish encounters with modernity in literature, as well as her work translating Yiddish children’s literature. Episode 0184 May 4, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA

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Episode 0183 "Ilan Stavans on Jewish Children’s...

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2018/04/25

This week we talk with Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American, and Latino Culture at Amherst College, publisher of Restless Books, and host of the NPR podcast “In Contrast.” A busy man, we caught up with him to chat about his upcoming three-part series of talks taking place at the Yiddish Book Center May 1, 8, and 15: “People of the Picture Book: The History of Jewish Children’s Literature.” In a lively exchange, we discuss everything from the Haggadah and the Book of

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Episode 0182 "A Visit to Boston’s Vilna Shul"

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2018/04/13

Lisa Newman and podcast producer and Yiddish Book Center fellow Zeke Levine take The Shmooze on the road to Boston for a visit and tour of the Vilna Shul. Vilna’s Executive Director, Barnet Kessel, provides a private tour of this historic landmark—the last immigrant era synagogue building that exists in downtown Boston. Barnet talks about the Shuls’ history, the building’s unique architecture, shares plans for the restoration of the old-wall murals, and answers our many questions. Episode

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Episode 0181 "Gefilte: The Story of One Family’s...

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2018/04/05

Brooklyn-based writer and director Rachel Fleit shares the story behind her latest film, Gefilte. Each year, the Hermelin family of Detroit comes together to celebrate Passover, and central to their seder meal is the family’s homemade gefilte fish. As Fleit notes, “While simple on the surface, Gefilte is filled with history and meaning—just like the recipe itself, which includes a stuffing of fish, salt, vegetables and egg.” Episode 0181 April 5, 2018 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA

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