The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast

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The Yiddish Book Center's podcast includes conversations with Jewish culture makers, plus news and stories related to Yiddish literature, language, and culture.

Episode Date
Episode 0369: Yiddish Culture in America
Apr 21, 2024
Episode 0368: in a dark blue night: two song cycles on Yiddish/Jewish New York
Mar 13, 2024
Episode 0367: The Yiddish Book Center’s Bossie Dubowick YiddishSchool
Mar 12, 2024
Episode 0366:The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Mar 07, 2024
Episode 0365: Across So Many Seas
Feb 05, 2024
Episode 0364: A Worker’s Yiddish Library on View
Jan 25, 2024
Episode 0363: Telling the Story of Yiddish Theater
Jan 14, 2024
Episode 0362: Staging Mikhl Yashinsky’s American Yiddish Drama
Dec 19, 2023
Episode 0361: New in Translation: Yiddish Writer Frume Halpern
Dec 14, 2023
Episode 0360: Shir Hashirim (The Song of Songs): A Yiddish Operetta
Dec 10, 2023
Episode 0359: Jewish Anarchist Histories Reclaimed
Nov 30, 2023
Episode 0358: Kristen Morgenstern’s Zine: Irena Klepfisz: The Life of the Fighter
Nov 21, 2023
Episode 0357: Amid Falling Walls: A Groundbreaking Musical
Nov 14, 2023
Episode 0356: Faith Jones on Translating Shira Gorshman
Nov 02, 2023
Episode 0355: David Mazower on Yiddish: A Global Culture
Sep 21, 2023
Episode 0354: Women on the Yiddish Stage
Jun 14, 2023
Episode 0353: The Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project
Jun 07, 2023
Episode 0352: A Life in Yiddish Translation
May 16, 2023
Episode 0351: Four Days of Concerts: Yidstock 2023
May 06, 2023
Episode 0350: Writing the Story of Franya Winter
Apr 30, 2023
Episode 0349: Dear Mr. Dickens: The Story Behind the Letter
Mar 30, 2023
Episode 0348: Caraid O’Brien on Sholem Asch’s Underworld Trilogy
Mar 18, 2023
Episode 0347: Di Shvester—The Sisters: Eleanor Reissa and Cilla Owens
Feb 22, 2023
Episode 0346: IIrena Klepfisz on Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems
Feb 02, 2023
Episode 0345: Max Weinreich on the Great Jewish Books Club
Jan 17, 2023
Episode 0344: And what about the taste? with Sima Beeri
Jan 11, 2023
Episode 0343: Aaron Bendich on the Launch of Off Beet
Dec 22, 2022
Episode 0342: The Inaugural New York Jewish Book Festival
Nov 30, 2022
Episode 0341: The Remarkable Backstory of Chana Blankshteyn’s Fear and Other Stories
Nov 16, 2022
Episode 0340: Women in Yiddish
Nov 15, 2022
Episode 0339: A Trilingual (Yiddish, Ukrainian, English) Volume of Two Works of Children’s Poetry
Nov 12, 2022
Episode 0338: Debra Olin’s Mixed Media Considers An-sky’s Questionnaire
Nov 01, 2022
Episode 0337: Josh Lambert on Jews and Publishing
Oct 24, 2022
Episode 0336: Working 9 to 5: A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie
Oct 04, 2022
Episode: 0335: The Mystery of the Library of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin
Sep 25, 2022
Episode: 0334: Girl with Two Landscapes: The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab
Sep 19, 2022
Episode: 0333: How the Soviet Jew Was Made
Aug 17, 2022
Episode 0332: Asaf Galay on The Adventures of Saul Bellow
Aug 10, 2022
Episode 0331: Jake Krakovsky, Yiddish Puppeteer
Aug 03, 2022
Episode 0330: Irving Massey Reflects On His Mother Ida Maze
Jul 17, 2022
Episode 0329: Photographer Chuck Fishman: A Lens on Jewish Poland
Jun 13, 2022
Episode 0328: Yermiyahu Ahron Taub on Translating Ida Maze’s Dineh
May 18, 2022
Episode 0327: Meet Misha: Host of Bard College’s Yiddish Radio Program
May 05, 2022
Episode 0326: What’s on Film Critic Kenneth Turan’s List?
Apr 19, 2022
Episode 0325: The Corset Maker by Annette Libeskind Berkovits
Apr 08, 2022
Episode: 0324 How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Mar 27, 2022
Episode: 0323: Ripped Away
Mar 06, 2022
Episode: 0322: Farbindungen: The Roots of Yiddish Networking
Feb 28, 2022
Episosde: 0321: Musterverk fun der yidisher literatur (Masterworks of Yiddish Literature)
Feb 10, 2022
Episode: 0320: The Golden Peacock: The Voice of the Yiddish Writer
Feb 02, 2022
Episode: 0319: Translating Isaac Babel’s Red Calvary
Jan 25, 2022
Episdode: 0318: American Comics: A History with Jeremy Dauber
Jan 20, 2022
Episode: 0317: Italian Opera for the Yiddish-Speaking Masses in Early 20th-Century America
Jan 12, 2022
Episode: 0316: DI FROYEN (THE WOMEN) ON STAGE
Jan 06, 2022
Episode: 0315 Justin Cammy on Avrom Sutzkever’s From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg
Dec 16, 2021
Episode: 0314: Frank London on “Hanukkah with the Klezmatics”
Dec 01, 2021
Episode: 0313: Abraham Karpinowitz’s Vilna My Vilna: A Staged Reading in Translation
Nov 18, 2021
Episode 0312: When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
Nov 10, 2021
Episode 0311: Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art
Nov 04, 2021
Episode 0310: The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language
Oct 28, 2021
Episode 0309: Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story
Oct 20, 2021
Episode 0308: Yiddish TikTok Sensation Cameron Bernstein
Oct 13, 2021
Episdoe 0307: Samuel Isban’s “Illegal” Jews Part the Seas
Oct 06, 2021
Episode 0306: Rachelle Grossman on Yiddish Print Culture and Rare Yiddish Books
Sep 14, 2021
Episode 0305: Sholom Aleichem’s Rediscovered Novel
Aug 18, 2021
Episode 0304: What's on at KlezKanada 2021
Aug 01, 2021
Episode 0303: Yiddish in Nature: An Anthology of Newly Translated Work
Jul 28, 2021
Ep0302: Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Jul 14, 2021
Episode 0301: Seth Rogovoy Chats about Yidstock ‘21
Jul 08, 2021
Episode 0300: Through the Hat and Tales from the Golden Medina
Jun 29, 2021
Episode 0299: Javier Sinay on Argentinian Journalist Pinie Katz and the Murders of Moises Ville
May 16, 2021
Aaron Bendich Podcast 4 30 21
Apr 29, 2021
Episode 0297: Sholem Asch’s "The Dead Man"’s English-Language Premiere
Apr 22, 2021
Episode 0296: Yiddish Women Playwrights Festival
Apr 14, 2021
Episode 0295: Judy Batalion and the Untold Story of Jewish Women Resistance Fighters
Apr 07, 2021
Episode 0294: Eleanor Reissa in Conversation
Apr 01, 2021
Episode 0293: A Wide-Ranging Conversation with Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel
Mar 19, 2021
Episode 0292: The Third Seder Goes Virtual
Mar 13, 2021
Episode 0291: African American Jewish Cantor Thomas LaRue Jones
Mar 06, 2021
Episode 0290: A Recent Find Sheds Light on the Work of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Feb 24, 2021
Episode 0289: Remember the Triangle Fire
Feb 18, 2021
Episode 0288: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in Conversation
Feb 04, 2021
Episode 0287: "9to5: The Story of a Movement"
Jan 29, 2021
Episode 0286: Hankus Netsky: 40 Years in Yiddishland
Jan 21, 2021
Episode 0285: "Teaching Jewish American Literature"
Jan 12, 2021
Episode 0284: "Yiddish in Israel: A History"
Jan 07, 2021
Episode 0283: Jews in Space
Dec 17, 2020
Episode 0282: "The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema"
Dec 10, 2020
Episode 0281: Yiddish Actor and Yiddishist Shane Baker
Dec 01, 2020
Episode 0280: "The Drowning Shore": A Cantata in Yiddish and Scottish
Nov 24, 2020
Episode 0279: Enhanced Access to Hundreds of Oral Histories
Nov 13, 2020
Episode 0278: New in Translation: "Sutzkever Essential Prose"
Nov 06, 2020
Episode 0277: Recommended Reads from the Jewish Book Council
Oct 29, 2020
Episode 0276: Yiddish Singer and Social Activist Isabel Frey
Oct 23, 2020
Episode 0275: Klara Klebanova's Memoir: Reflections of a Russian Revolutionary
Oct 16, 2020
Episode 0274: "On the Roof: A Look Inside Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish"
Oct 09, 2020
Episode 0273: "Honey on the Page"
Oct 01, 2020
Episode 0272: Twentieth-Century Yiddish Primers and Workbooks for Children
Sep 25, 2020
Episode 0271: Glasgow's Yiddish Pink Peacock Café
Sep 11, 2020
Episode 0270: Rachmil Bryks' Holocaust Memoir Triptych
Aug 13, 2020
Episode 0269: "A Revolution in Yiddish-Language Pedagogy": Introducing The New Yiddish Textbook
Aug 06, 2020
Episode 0268: KlezKanada at Twenty-Five
Jul 31, 2020
Episode 0267: Ilan Stavans's "The Seventh Heaven"
Jul 24, 2020
Episode 0266: Jack Berger's Work Translating Yizkor Books
Jul 17, 2020
Episode 0265: On Rosenfeld and "Rivals": Rachel Mines Talks Translation
Jul 09, 2020
Episode 0264: Mendel Osherowitch's Account of Soviet Ukraine in 1932
Jul 02, 2020
Episode 0263: Dylan, "Babylon Berlin," and Camus: Seth Rogovoy's Recommendations
Jun 26, 2020
Episode 0262: Yiddish Theater Lab: Reviving the Forgotten Works of the Yiddish Theater
Jun 12, 2020
Episode 0261: Author Elissa Bemporad: "Legacy of Blood"
Jun 04, 2020
Episode 0260: Yiddish Comes to America: A Collection of Newly Translated Work
May 28, 2020
Episode 0259: Jewish Film Festival Favorites for Home Streaming
May 15, 2020
Episode 0258: Remembering Jerry Stiller
May 12, 2020
Episode 0257: Russ & Daughters Delivers When We Need It Most
May 08, 2020
Episode 0256: On Women's Writing in Yiddish
May 01, 2020
Episode 0255: Modern Jewish Literature in the Classroom
Apr 24, 2020
Episode 0254: Eli Rosen and His Role on the Hit Series "Unorthodox"
Apr 17, 2020
Episode 0253: Yiddish OCR: An Account of Some Amazing Finds
Apr 08, 2020
Episode 0252: Third Seder: Adapting this Tradition Online in 2020
Apr 02, 2020
Episode 0251: Bam, Crack, Dot: Mah Jongg and Its Jewish-American Roots
Mar 27, 2020
Episode 0250: The Outback Quest of Yiddish Poet Melekh Ravitsh
Mar 08, 2020
Episode 0249: "Diary of a Lonely Girl": Jessica Kirzane Translates Miriam Karpilove
Mar 01, 2020
Episode 0248: "Yiddish in Poland: The Contemporary Scene"
Feb 26, 2020
Episode 0247: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in Yiddish
Feb 13, 2020
Episode 0246: "Zamlers": Profiles of Volunteer Book Collectors
Feb 09, 2020
Episode 0245: "Zamlers": Profiles of Volunteer Book Collectors
Feb 03, 2020
Episode 0244: "Zamlers": Profiles of Volunteer Book Collectors
Jan 23, 2020
Episode 0243: "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish"
Jan 16, 2020
Episode 0242: "'Judaism Unbound' Podcast Considers Yiddish in America"
Jan 04, 2020
Episode 0241: "Rokhl Kafrissen Visits with 'The Shmooze'"
Dec 19, 2019
Episode 0240: "Riffing with Alex Weiser"
Dec 12, 2019
Episode 0239: "'A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America'"
Dec 05, 2019
Episode 0238: "Daniel Kennedy: Translating Hersh Dovid Nomberg's 'Warsaw Stories'"
Nov 26, 2019
Episode 0237: "Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet's South Beach 1977–1980"
Nov 21, 2019
Episode 0236: "Great Jewish Books Book Club"
Nov 06, 2019
Episode 0235: "At the Forefront of Yiddish Translation"
Oct 31, 2019
Episode 0234: "Harold Bloom: The Late, Legendary, Literary Scholar"
Oct 23, 2019
Episode 0233: "Yiddish for Dogs"
Oct 17, 2019
Episode 0232: "Sarah Abrevaya Stein: A Story of Sephardic Jewish History Through a Family's Journey"
Oct 10, 2019
Episode 0231: "My Aunt Cipe Pineles"
Sep 22, 2019
Episode 0230: "'Re-Reading Bellow, Roth, Malamud, Ozick, and Other Great Jewish Writers'"
Sep 13, 2019
Episode 0229: "Yiddish on Stage and Screen: Allen Lewis Rickman Gets 'Serious'"
Aug 22, 2019
Episode 0228: "'Asymptote's' Yiddish Poetry in Translation"
Aug 16, 2019
Episode 0227: "Anita Norich's newly translated 'A Jewish Refugee in New York'"
Aug 08, 2019
Episode 0226: "Caraid O'Brien: Yiddish Translator, Actor, and Writer"
Jul 31, 2019
Episode 0225: "Zangwill's Spitalfields and London's East End"
Jul 18, 2019
Ep0224 Seth Rogovoy
Jun 27, 2019
Episode 0223: "The Story Behind Newly Translated Yiddish Correspondence"
Jun 20, 2019
Episode 0222: "'Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays'"
Jun 13, 2019
Episode 0221: "Inside 'Hankus's Closet'"
May 30, 2019
Episode 0220: "A Conversation with Daniel Kahn"
May 22, 2019
Episode 0219: "Considering Jewish Children's Literature"
May 07, 2019
Episode 0218: "Dr. Pamela Nadell on 'America's Jewish Women'"
Apr 18, 2019
Episode 0217: "Mikhail Krutikov on the Enigmatic Der Nister”
Apr 12, 2019
Episode 0216: "Alana Newhouse on 'The 100 Most Jewish Foods: A Highly Debatable List'"
Apr 04, 2019
Episode 0215: "'Grains of Wheat': Abigail Weaver on the Paper Brigade"
Mar 21, 2019
Episode 0214: "Alyssa Quint on 'The Rise of Modern Yiddish Theater'"
Mar 20, 2019
Episode 213: "'Vilna:' The Play"
Feb 26, 2019
Episode 212: "Mendel Mann’s 'Seeds in the Desert': In Translation"
Feb 13, 2019
Episode 211: "Yiddish Theater's Vilna Troupe"
Feb 08, 2019
Episode 0210: "Andrea Simon on 'Angel Wagenstein: Art is a Weapon'"
Jan 31, 2019
Episode 0209: "The Reading Culture of Yiddish-Speaking Immigrants"
Jan 10, 2019
Episode 0208: "The Shraybmashin-brigade: In Search of Yiddish Typewriters"
Jan 03, 2019
Episode 0207: "'A New Year's Eve State of Mind': Ri J. Turner’s Yiddish Translation"
Dec 25, 2018
Episode 0206: "The Jewish Deli and the Third Space: A Chat with Ted Merwin"
Dec 19, 2018
Episode 0205: "David R. Gillham’s 'Annelies': Approaching Anne Frank through Fiction"
Dec 12, 2018
Episode 0204: "Gerri Chanel’s 'Saving Mona Lisa'"
Dec 05, 2018
Episode 0203: "Jamie Bernstein: On Being 'Famous Father Girl'"
Nov 28, 2018
Episode 0202: "From the Yiddish Book Center's Collection: All Things Turkey-Related"
Nov 21, 2018
Episode 0201: "Ilan Stavans and the Film 'My Mexican Shivah'"
Nov 12, 2018
Episode 0200: "Marvin Zuckerman on Translation and Growing up in New York’s Jewish Labor Movement"
Nov 06, 2018
Episode 0199: "Photographer Rebecca Lepkoff"
Nov 01, 2018
Episode 0198: "David Stromberg’s 'In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times'"
Oct 17, 2018
Episode 0197: "New York's Jewish Photographers"
Sep 30, 2018
Episode 0196: "Discovering and Translating Yiddish Writer Yenta Mash"
Sep 12, 2018
Episode 0195: "The Pied-Piper of Yiddish Dance"
Aug 23, 2018
Episode 0194: "Hankus Netsky on 'The Shmooze'"
Aug 20, 2018
Episode 0193 "A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture"
Aug 02, 2018
Episode 0192 "Shmoozing with Anthony Russell and Dmitri Gaskin"
Jul 20, 2018
Episode 0191 "The Shmooze: Live at Yidstock"
Jul 13, 2018
Episode 0190 "On Press with Pakn Treger: The Making of the Magazine"
Jun 28, 2018
Episode 0189 "Yiddish Immigrant Life in Song and Verse"
Jun 14, 2018
Episode 0188 "An Expert’s Guide to Jewish San Francisco: Aga Ilwicka "
Jun 07, 2018
Episode 0187 "An Expert’s Guide to Jewish Rhode Island: Sam Zerin"
May 31, 2018
Episode 0186 "Sarah Aroeste: Bringing Ladino to the Stage at Yidstock"
May 23, 2018
Episode 0185 "JT Waldman Talks Comic Books and Judaism"
May 10, 2018
Episode 0184 "Miriam Udel on Yiddish Children’s Literature, Translation, and Literary Encounters"
May 04, 2018
Episode 0183 "Ilan Stavans on Jewish Children’s Literature"
Apr 25, 2018
Episode 0182 "A Visit to Boston’s Vilna Shul"
Apr 13, 2018
Episode 0181 "Gefilte: The Story of One Family’s Holiday Tradition"
Apr 05, 2018
Episode 0180 "The Magnificent Esme Wells: A Coming-of-Age Story With a Tinge of Noir"
Mar 28, 2018
Episode 0179 "The Sunshine Theatre: The History of a New York City Yiddish Landmark"
Mar 23, 2018
Episode 0178 "American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball"
Mar 15, 2018
Episode 0177 "The Story Behind the Discovery of the Lost Songs of World War II"
Mar 09, 2018
Episode 0176 "Lee Lee’s Rugelach: Possibly the Best Rugelach Anywhere!"
Mar 01, 2018
Episode 0175 "From the Vault: A Collection of Yiddish Sheet Music"
Feb 22, 2018
Episode 0174 "Yidstock 2018: Four Days, Seven Concerts"
Feb 15, 2018
"Beth Kaplan, Author of Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin"
Feb 08, 2018
Episode 0172 "Great Jewish Books: Summer Programs for Teens and Educators"
Feb 02, 2018
Episode 0171 "Danny’s Library: A Manhattan Yiddish Book Rescue "
Jan 26, 2018
Episode 0170 "Shannon Sarna, the Modern Jewish Baker"
Jan 19, 2018
EP0169 "On The Shmooze: Recommended Reads in Yiddish and English"
Jan 12, 2018
Episode 0168 "A Talk with the 2017–18 Yiddish Book Center Fellows"
Dec 21, 2017
Episode 0167: "New Yiddish Rep: Playing to a 21st Century Audience"
Dec 15, 2017
Episode 0166: "Photographer David Kaufman and his Work"
Dec 07, 2017
Episode 0165: "Remnants: Photographs of the Lower East Side"
Nov 20, 2017
Episode 0164: "Steiner Summer Yiddish Program Alums: On Stage at Der Yidisher Idol"
Nov 15, 2017
Episode 0163: "The Jewish Ghetto in Postcards: From Eastern Europe to the Lower East Side "
Nov 10, 2017
Episode 0162: "Live from St. Paul, Minnesota: A Yiddish Radio Show"
Nov 02, 2017
Episode 0161:Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman: The Subject of a Forthcoming Short Film
Oct 23, 2017
Episode 0160: "Artist Mark Podwal on His Work and Its Influences"
Oct 18, 2017
Episode 0159: "Alix Wall on the Legacy of Shmerke Kaczerginski’s Song, “Dos Elnte Kind”
Oct 04, 2017
Episode 0158- Caraid O'Brien: On and Off the Stage
Sep 26, 2017
Episode 0157- Eddy Portnoy on True Stories from the Yiddish Press
Sep 15, 2017
Ep0156 - Eitan Kensky And Ozzy Irving Gold-Shapiro
Aug 26, 2017
Episode 0155: "Menashe": A Father, a Son, a Community
Jul 26, 2017
Episode 0154: What Have You Been Doing Your Fellowship Year?
Jul 15, 2017
Episode 0153: Translating Chaim Grade
Jul 09, 2017
Episode 0152: Who Grace Paley Was
Jun 22, 2017
Episode 0151: Yidstock 2017: The Festival of New Yiddish Music
Jun 07, 2017
Episode 0150: Andy Statman and the Klezmer Revival
Jun 02, 2017
Episode 0149: A New Translation of a Classic Yiddish Tale by An-sky
May 26, 2017
Episode 0148: Exploring Jewish Holidays with Abigail Pogrebin
May 19, 2017
Episode 0147: A World of Jewish Cooking with Joan Nathan
May 11, 2017
Episode 0146: Jewish Summer Camping with Riv-Ellen Prell
May 05, 2017
Episode 0145: Unearthing Memories in the Lodz Ghetto
Apr 28, 2017
Epsiode 0144: Yiddish Translation and Writing with Curt Leviant
Apr 21, 2017
Episode 0143: Beyond the Forest: Loli Kantor's Photographic Expedition into Eastern Europe
Apr 14, 2017
Episode 0142: Sandy Fox on Jewish Summer Camp and Yiddish Feminist Podcasting
Apr 04, 2017
Episode 0141: The Pickle Guys: Kosher Pickles on the Lower East Side
Mar 31, 2017
Episode 0140: Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher
Mar 24, 2017
Episode 0139: The Ellis Island Yiddish Sound Archives
Mar 16, 2017
Episode 0138: The Abandoned Book: A New Collection of Yiddish Translations
Mar 10, 2017
Episode 0137: Exploring the Roots of Jewish Sounds
Mar 03, 2017
Episode 0136: Bringing Mazel to Your Doorstep
Feb 24, 2017
Episode 0135: Finding Bob Dylan
Feb 17, 2017
Episode 0134: Yiddish Theater in the Digital Age
Feb 10, 2017
Episode 0133: Three Generations of Jewish Women and One Graphic Memoir
Feb 02, 2017
Episode 0132: Reimagining Matzo
Jan 27, 2017
Episode 0131: A Century of Yiddish Fiction from the Forward
Jan 20, 2017
Episode 0130: One Year and One Thousand Yiddish Words
Jan 13, 2017
Episode 0129: Through a Unique Jewish Lens
Jan 04, 2017
Episode 0128: Discovering and Translating Yiddish Writer Blume Lempel
Dec 14, 2016
Episode 0127: "Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece"
Dec 06, 2016
Episode 0126: On Exhibit: Jewish Art and the Lower East Side
Nov 29, 2016
Episode 0125: "Molly on the Range"
Nov 21, 2016
Episode 0124: The Jewish Nature of Photography: "Descendants of Light"
Nov 14, 2016
Episode 0123: The Great Jewish Books Book Club
Nov 07, 2016
Episode 0122: Finding Babel
Oct 28, 2016
Episode 0121: Wishing a "Happy New Year" with Yiddish Postcards
Oct 19, 2016
Episode 0120: Mamaleh Knows Best
Oct 06, 2016
Episode 0119: Recovering Early Yiddish Recordings
Sep 26, 2016
Episode 0118: Seven Weeks With Yiddish
Sep 12, 2016
Episode 0117: "Jewish Champions in the Golden Age of Boxing"
Jul 28, 2016
Episode 0116: How Klezmer Defined a Community
Jun 30, 2016
Episode 0115: Eleanor Reissa – In Music and Theater She's Keeping Yiddish Alive
Jun 09, 2016
Episode 0114: The Remarkable Life—and Afterlife—of Sholem Aleichem
May 12, 2016
Episode 0113: Bashevis Singer and His Translators
Apr 18, 2016
Episode 0112: A New "Haggadah" for a New World
Apr 04, 2016
Episode 0111: Reports from the Wartime Ghettos, Now in English Translation
Mar 14, 2016
Episode 0110: Bringing Jewish Culture into the Classroom
Dec 30, 2015
Episode 0109: "A Town Known as Auschwitz"
Dec 12, 2015
Episode 0108: The Stories Behind Favorite Hanukkah Recipes
Dec 04, 2015
Episode 0107: A Week Exploring Great Jewish Books
Nov 15, 2015
Episode 0106: Rediscovering the "Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook"
Nov 03, 2015
Episode 0105: "Deli Man": A Delicious Jewish Tradition
Sep 02, 2015
Episode 0104: A Stop at the Iconic Red Apple Restaurant
Jul 26, 2015
Episode 0103: Holocaust Survivor Band: The Power of Music
Jun 11, 2015
Episode 0102: The Jewish Roots of "Yiddish Fight Club"
Jun 02, 2015
Episode 0101: The Plunder of Jewish Books
May 05, 2015
Episode 0100: Echoes from the Borcht Belt: Through a Contemporary Lens
Apr 30, 2015
Episode 0099: Bringing Classic Yiddish Tales to Life
Apr 20, 2015
Episode 0098: Kitchen Kibitz: The Pop-Up Jewish Dinner Club
Apr 07, 2015
Episode 0097: "Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream"
Mar 25, 2015
Episode 0096: Four Questions, 300 Languages
Mar 19, 2015
Episode 0095: The Story of He'Brew: The Chosen Beer
Mar 06, 2015
Episode 0093: Eating Delancey: A Celebration in Words and Photographs
Dec 18, 2014
Episode 0092: Southern Jewish Life: A Conversation with Macy Hart
Nov 23, 2014
Episode 0091: "Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers"
Nov 05, 2014
Episode 0090: Felix Lembersky: Soviet Form, Jewish Context
Oct 12, 2014
Episode 0089: Great Jewish Books: Young Readers Explore New Worlds
Oct 02, 2014
Episode 0088: The Lost Shul Murals
Sep 22, 2014
Episode 0087: Seven Weeks of Yiddish: Three Students Reflect on Their Experience
Sep 09, 2014
Episode 0086: Bess Selevan: Volunteer Zamler (Book Collector)
Aug 20, 2014
Episode 0085: Collecting Ladino Books: A Conversation with Devin Naar
Aug 06, 2014
Episode 0084: A Long Life in Yiddish: Herschel Melamed
Jul 08, 2014
Episode 0083: From the Lower East Side to Biblical Stories: The Art of Nathan Hilu
Jun 10, 2014
Episode 0082: At Ninety: The World's First Jewish Sit-Down Comedian
Jun 02, 2014
Episode 0081: Translating Experimental Yiddish Poet Celia Dropkin
May 14, 2014
Episode 0080: Alice Hoffman: "The Museum of Extraordinary Things"
Apr 27, 2014
Episode 0079: Grandma'€™s Chicken Soup: Delivered Overnight
Apr 11, 2014
Episode 0078: Blue Moon Hotel: A Storied History Restored
Mar 05, 2014
Episode 0077: "A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of a Neighbourhood"
Feb 25, 2014
Episode 0076: "In the Shadow of the Shtetl": Telling the Story of Small-Town Jewish Life
Feb 06, 2014
Episode 0075: Yiddish Translation in the 21st Century
Jan 21, 2014
Episode 0094: Jewish Cuba: A Conversation with Adela Dworin
Jan 11, 2014
Episode 0074: Jeremy Dauber on "The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem"
Dec 20, 2013
Episode 0073: An Exhibit Tells the Universal Story of the Emigrant
Dec 04, 2013
Episode 0072: The Pin: A Yiddish Language Film
Nov 07, 2013
Episode 0071: Forty Notable Jewish Writers: Jules Chametzky Reminisces
Oct 09, 2013
Episode 0070: Danny Kaye: A Look at the Early Years of the Famed Tummler
Sep 10, 2013
Episode 0069: Allan Sherman: The Backstory
Aug 06, 2013
Episode 0068: Jewish Genealogy: A First-Hand Account
Jul 23, 2013
Episode 0067: The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
Jul 02, 2013
Episode 0066: Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity
Jun 18, 2013
Episode 0065: A Growing Archive of Yiddish Oral Histories
Jun 11, 2013
Episode 0064: On Translating The Zelmenyaners - A Classic Yiddish Work
Jun 04, 2013
Episode 0063: Yidstock 2013: Top Names in Klezmer to Perform July 18-21
May 18, 2013
Episode 0062: Illustrating Letters To A Yiddish Advice Column
May 06, 2013
Episode 0061: Realizing Yiddish Translation in the 21st Century
Apr 28, 2013
Episode 0060: Jewish Cuba: A First-Hand Account
Apr 21, 2013
Episode 0059: Newly Named Yiddish Translation Fellows
Apr 05, 2013
Episode 0058: A New Take on Gefilte Fish
Mar 18, 2013
Episode 0057: Delving into the Life and Work of Itzik Manger
Mar 11, 2013
Episode 0056: Recommended Reading
Mar 04, 2013
Episode 0055: Yiddish in Israel?
Feb 22, 2013
Episode 0054: The Story of a Zamler (Volunteer Book Collector)
Jan 28, 2013
Episode 0053: "Frishe nayes" (Fresh News) from the Yiddish Book Center
Jan 14, 2013
Episode 0052: Recommended Reading
Jan 08, 2013
Episode 0051: Now in Yiddish-- "Der Hobit (The Hobbit)"
Dec 17, 2012
Episode 0050: Tori Avey on Making the Perfect Latke
Dec 11, 2012
Episode 0049: A Trove of Yiddish Recordings
Dec 03, 2012
Episode 0048: Behind the Scenes of "Deli Man"
Nov 26, 2012
Episode 0047: A Photographer Remembers Yiddish New York in the 1960s
Nov 19, 2012
Episode 0046: Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary
Nov 12, 2012
Episode 0045: A Conversation with Yiddish Book Center Fellows
Oct 27, 2012
Episode 0044: What's Tent?
Oct 22, 2012
Episode 0043: Ilan Stavans in Conversation
Sep 22, 2012
Episode 0042: From Baltimore to Vilnius: Yiddish Stories from Around the World
Sep 10, 2012
Episode 0041: Yiddish and Ladino: Understanding Jewish Languages
Sep 04, 2012
Episode 0040: A Virtual Shtetl Explores Yiddish and Jewish Culture
Aug 28, 2012
Episode 0039: Poetry, Criticism, and the Jewish Literary Landscape
Aug 21, 2012
Episode 0038: All Things Yiddish
Aug 14, 2012
Episode 0037: Staging Modern Adaptations of Yiddish Plays
Aug 07, 2012
Episode 0036: Students Reflect on Yiddish and Jewish Identity
Aug 01, 2012
Episode 0035: Lost Embrace
Jul 25, 2012
Episode 0034: Global Jewish Comedy
Jul 13, 2012
Episode 0033: Peter Manseau on Yiddish and Writing
Jul 10, 2012
Episode 0032: Flying Klezmer
Jul 03, 2012
Episode 0030: Old Jews Telling Jokes Onstage
Jun 26, 2012
Episode 0031: A 14-Year-Old Who Rescues Yiddish Books
Jun 26, 2012
Episode 0029: Behind the Scenes of Holy Ground
Jun 19, 2012
Episode 0028: All Things Yiddish
Jun 18, 2012
Episode 0027: The Fugs' Yiddish Inspiration
Jun 12, 2012
Episode 0026: Chana Mlotek: The Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish Songs
Jun 07, 2012
Episode 0025: Eleanor Reissa
Jun 05, 2012
Episode 0024: Seth Rogovoy on Yidstock
May 24, 2012
Episode 0023: 1,000 Yiddish Schools
May 22, 2012
Episode 0022: All Things Yiddish
May 15, 2012
Episode 0021: Out of Steel Comes "Yiddish"
May 09, 2012
Episode 0020: Chaim Grade's Elegy for the Soviet Yiddish Writers
Apr 24, 2012
Episode 0019: Writer Ilan Stavans Discusses His Fotonovela Once@9:53am
Apr 17, 2012
Episode 0018: Yiddish Culture Comes to Life in the Lee & Alfred Hutt Discovery Gallery
Apr 11, 2012
Episode 0016: By Design—A New Logo
Apr 03, 2012
Episode 0017: The Mission to Construct a Replica of a Wooden Synagogue
Apr 03, 2012
Episode 0015: American Jews, Maxwell House, and Passover
Mar 27, 2012
Episode 0014: The South African Jewish Experience
Mar 20, 2012
Episode 0013: Two Trends Find a Home on Yiddish Farm
Mar 13, 2012
Episode 0012: Reading Jewish Books Outside the Classroom
Mar 09, 2012
Episode 0011: "Bar Mitzvah"
Mar 05, 2012
Episode 0010: Summer Reading—What's on the list for 18 lucky high school students?
Feb 28, 2012
Episode 0009: Yiddish Writer Chaim Grade—The Backstory
Feb 21, 2012
Episode 0008: Collecting Stories
Feb 14, 2012
Episode 0007: All Things Yiddish
Feb 02, 2012
Episode 0006: Jordan Kutzik on Rediscovered Recordings of Yiddish Writers
Jan 24, 2012
Episode 0005: Introducing Josh Lambert
Jan 19, 2012
Episode 0004: Steiner Summer Program—Apply Now!
Jan 10, 2012
Episode 0003: Der oylem redt—Yiddish in the Press
Jan 06, 2012
Episode 0002: The Other 98%: Practical Plans for Yiddish Translation
Jan 02, 2012
Episode 0001: Imagining a Universal Yiddish Library
Dec 26, 2011