The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast

Episdoe 0307: Samuel Isban’s “Illegal” Jews Part the Seas

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ruth Zuckerbrod and Elliott Isban join The Shmooze to talk about their father Samuel Isban, a Yiddish writer and journalist and author of the newly tr...

Episode 0306: Rachelle Grossman on Yiddish Print Culture and Rare Yiddish Books

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Shmooze caught up with Rachelle Grossman, the Yiddish Book Center’s Bibliography and Collections Manager, to speak about her new role at the Cen...

Episode 0305: Sholom Aleichem’s Rediscovered Novel

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Translator and author Curt Leviant visits with The Shmooze to talk about this first English translation of Sholom Aleichem’s rediscovered novel "Mos...

Episode 0304: What's on at KlezKanada 2021

01 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"On The Shmooze this week: Sebastian Schulman, executive director of KlezKanada, previews what’s in store for KlezKanada 2021 (August 23–29). Klez...

Episode 0303: Yiddish in Nature: An Anthology of Newly Translated Work

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"Mindl Cohen speaks with The Shmooze about the 2021 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue. As she writes in the introduction to the anthology, “Yidd...

Ep0302: Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction

14 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Shmooze speaks with author and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans about his latest book, "Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction". As Ilan e...

Episode 0301: Seth Rogovoy Chats about Yidstock ‘21

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"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 e...

Episode 0300: Through the Hat and Tales from the Golden Medina

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

From his Lower East Side studio, artist Steve Marcus joins The Shmooze to talk about his early work as an Underground cartoonist - and his latest work...

Episode 0299: Javier Sinay on Argentinian Journalist Pinie Katz and the Murders of Moises Ville

16 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 0299: Javier Sinay on Argentinian Journalist Pinie Katz and the Murders of Moises Ville by Yiddish Book Center

Aaron Bendich Podcast 4 30 21

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron Bendich is the twenty-seven-year-old behind “Borscht Beat,” a new Yiddish music show on WJFF Radio Catskill, the public radio station for th...

Episode 0297: Sholem Asch’s "The Dead Man"’s English-Language Premiere

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Translator, actor, and producer Caraid O’Brien joins us from her editing room where she’s putting the finishing touches on her radio drama product...

Episode 0296: Yiddish Women Playwrights Festival

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Motl Didner, associate art director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF), and NYTF literary manager Sabina Brukner talk with The Shmooze ...

Episode 0295: Judy Batalion and the Untold Story of Jewish Women Resistance Fighters

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Judy Batalion is the author of the recently released The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos, which ill...

Episode 0294: Eleanor Reissa in Conversation

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Shmooze visits with the multitalented Eleanor Reissa, a Tony-nominated director, Broadway actress, prize-winning playwright, soon-to-be published ...

Episode 0293: A Wide-Ranging Conversation with Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

19 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On the phone with "The Shmooze" this week, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel talks with us about her work as a Yiddish singer, songwriter, actor, recording...

Episode 0292: The Third Seder Goes Virtual

13 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rabbi Avram Mlotek joins "The Shmooze" to talk about the history of the Third Seder, a long-standing Yiddish cultural tradition. Avram lets us in on w...

Episode 0291: African American Jewish Cantor Thomas LaRue Jones

06 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's guest, Henry Sapoznik, is an award-winning producer, musicologist and performer, and writer in the fields of traditional and popular Yiddi...

Episode 0290: A Recent Find Sheds Light on the Work of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We invited Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow Matthew Johnson onto "The Shmooze" to tell us about his recent discovery of the Yiddish writer Moysh...

Episode 0289: Remember the Triangle Fire

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we visit with Esther Cohen, a longtime leader of labor culture in New York City and one of the organizers of a March 25 memorial to the wome...

Episode 0288: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in Conversation

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Performance and Jewish studies scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett joins us for a lively and informative conversation about her work as the Ronald S...

Episode 0287: "9to5: The Story of a Movement"

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Writer and Yiddish translator Ellen Cassedy talks with The Shmooze about the new documentary "9to5: The Story of a Movement" and her role in the femin...

Episode 0286: Hankus Netsky: 40 Years in Yiddishland

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hankus Netsky visits with The Shmooze to chat about "40 Years in Yiddishland: The Yiddish Book Center Celebrates the Klezmer Conservatory Band," a spe...

Episode 0285: "Teaching Jewish American Literature"

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Co-editor Rachel Rubinstein talks with The Shmooze about "Teaching Jewish American Literature," a newly published collection of essays she co-edited w...

Episode 0284: "Yiddish in Israel: A History"

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we visit with author Rachel Rojanski to talk about her recently published "Yiddish in Israel: A History." The book tells the compelling and ...

Episode 0283: Jews in Space

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're joined by Joanna Church, director of collections and exhibits at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, to talk about the newly opened exhibit...

Episode 0282: "The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema"

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kenneth Turan, film critic for the "Los Angeles Times" and NPR, visits with "The Shmooze" to talk about the newly released "The Jewish Soul: Classics ...

Episode 0281: Yiddish Actor and Yiddishist Shane Baker

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Acclaimed Yiddish actor Shane Baker, recipient of the 2020 Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Award, has brought Yiddish theater, classes, and cultur...

Episode 0280: "The Drowning Shore": A Cantata in Yiddish and Scottish

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

London-based singer Clara Kanter, the great-great-granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Asch, and composer Alastair White visit with The Shmooze to t...

Episode 0279: Enhanced Access to Hundreds of Oral Histories

13 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we visit with Christa Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, to talk about the new enhanced features t...

Episode 0278: New in Translation: "Sutzkever Essential Prose"

06 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Yiddish translator Zackary Sholem Berger visits with The Shmooze to talk about the forthcoming release of his translation of Avrom Sutzkever's prose w...

Episode 0277: Recommended Reads from the Jewish Book Council

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Shmooze asked Becca Kantor, editorial director of the Jewish Book Council, to share a few recommended reads. Her selections include a mix of genre...

Episode 0276: Yiddish Singer and Social Activist Isabel Frey

23 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On call from her home in Vienna, Isabel Frey talks about her work as a Yiddish singer and social justice activist. She specializes in Yiddish revoluti...

Episode 0275: Klara Klebanova's Memoir: Reflections of a Russian Revolutionary

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Caraid O'Brien chats with us about the launch of the Yiddish Book Center's new radiocast series, "The Last Maximalist." Caraid is both the translator ...

Episode 0274: "On the Roof: A Look Inside Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish"

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In her new book, "On the Roof," actor and author Samantha Hahn, the youngest cast member of "Fiddler on the Roof" in Yiddish, tells the story of how t...

Episode 0273: "Honey on the Page"

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week The Shmooze visits with Yiddish professor and translator Miriam Udel to talk about her translation of a newly released collection of Yiddish...

Episode 0272: Twentieth-Century Yiddish Primers and Workbooks for Children

25 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we caught up with Heather O'Donnell of Honey & Wax Booksellers and Yiddish book collector Miriam Borden. Miriam Borden is the winner of the ...

Episode 0271: Glasgow's Yiddish Pink Peacock Café

11 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On a call with "The Shmooze" all the way from Scotland, Morgan Holleb and Joe Isaac talk about how they came to co-found Glasgow's new Pink Peacock Ca...

Episode 0270: Rachmil Bryks' Holocaust Memoir Triptych

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is a poet, writer, and translator. As a 2018 Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow, he translated three memoirs by Yiddish write...

Episode 0269: "A Revolution in Yiddish-Language Pedagogy": Introducing The New Yiddish Textbook

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Asya Vaisman Schulman, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Yiddish Language Institute, visits with The Shmooze to talk about the forthcoming release...

Episode 0268: KlezKanada at Twenty-Five

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

KlezKanada was founded in 1996 to teach, nurture, and present to a broad public the best of Jewish traditional arts and Yiddish culture. Its goal is t...

Episode 0267: Ilan Stavans's "The Seventh Heaven"

24 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling across a dozen countries in Latin America in search...

Episode 0266: Jack Berger's Work Translating Yizkor Books

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Berger has been working on the translation of Yizkor books since the early 1990s. Yizkor (memorial) books document the history of Jewish communit...

Episode 0265: On Rosenfeld and "Rivals": Rachel Mines Talks Translation

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Mines' translation of "The Rivals and Other Stories" introduces nineteen of Jonah Rosenfeld's Yiddish-language short stories--stories that expl...

Episode 0264: Mendel Osherowitch's Account of Soviet Ukraine in 1932

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lubomyr Luciuk spoke with The Shmooze about the recent release of his edited volume "How People Live in Soviet Russia: Impressions from a Journey." Ne...

Episode 0263: Dylan, "Babylon Berlin," and Camus: Seth Rogovoy's Recommendations

26 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we decided to ask cultural critic, author, and music enthusiast Seth Rogovoy to share his recommendations on what to read, watch, and listen...

Episode 0262: Yiddish Theater Lab: Reviving the Forgotten Works of the Yiddish Theater

12 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"The Shmooze" visited with Adam Immerwahr, artistic director of Theater J, the nation's largest and most prominent Jewish theater, to talk about Theat...

Episode 0261: Author Elissa Bemporad: "Legacy of Blood"

04 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Elissa Bemporad's latest book, "Legacy of Blood," traces the legacies of the two classical and most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism--po...

Episode 0260: Yiddish Comes to America: A Collection of Newly Translated Work

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"The Shmooze" catches up with the Yiddish Book Center's director of translation initiatives, Mindl Cohen, to talk about the 2020 "Pakn Treger Digital ...

Episode 0259: Jewish Film Festival Favorites for Home Streaming

15 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Shmooze recently caught up with Deb Krivoy, director of the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival (PVJFF), to ask her for a list of past Festival fa...

Episode 0258: Remembering Jerry Stiller

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In 2012 Caraid O'Brien interviewed actor Jerry Stiller for WABI radio. She joins us on The Shmooze to talk about that interview and her friendship wit...

Episode 0257: Russ & Daughters Delivers When We Need It Most

08 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For 106 years, Russ & Daughters has been an integral part of the history of New York City, a touchstone in the lives of generations, and the torchbear...

Episode 0256: On Women's Writing in Yiddish

01 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Translator and Yiddish literary scholar Anita Norich and Yiddish Book Center director of translation initiatives Mindl Cohen join The Shmooze this wee...

Episode 0255: Modern Jewish Literature in the Classroom

24 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lesley Yalen, the Yiddish Book Center's education manager, joined The Shmooze recently to talk about her work as co-editor of teachgreatjewishbooks.or...

Episode 0254: Eli Rosen and His Role on the Hit Series "Unorthodox"

17 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we visit with Eli Rosen to talk about his work on the Netflix hit series "Unorthodox." Eli was raised in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn a...

Episode 0253: Yiddish OCR: An Account of Some Amazing Finds

08 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After nearly a decade in development, the Yiddish Book Center has launched a new website that will allow users to search the full text of nearly 11,00...

Episode 0252: Third Seder: Adapting this Tradition Online in 2020

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rabbi Avram Mlotek visits with The Shmooze to talk about the tradition of the Third Seder and how, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, he's foun...

Episode 0251: Bam, Crack, Dot: Mah Jongg and Its Jewish-American Roots

27 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Martens Yaverbaum, executive director of the Council of American Jewish Museums and curator of Project Mah Jongg, chats with us about Mah Jong...

Episode 0250: The Outback Quest of Yiddish Poet Melekh Ravitsh

08 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Author Anna Epstein visits with us from her home in Australia to talk about her recently published book about Yiddish poet Melekh Ravitsh. The book te...

Episode 0249: "Diary of a Lonely Girl": Jessica Kirzane Translates Miriam Karpilove

01 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Shmooze talks with Yiddish professor and translator Jessica Kirzane, a three-time alumna of the Yiddish Book Center, about the recent publication ...

Episode 0248: "Yiddish in Poland: The Contemporary Scene"

26 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

From Warsaw, Poland, Gabe Miner joins us on The Shmooze to chat about the current Yiddish scene in Poland. Gabe is a Warsaw-based Jewish educator, fre...

Episode 0247: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in Yiddish

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Shmooze caught up with Yiddish translator Arun Viswanath to learn about the story of his work translating "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" ...

Episode 0246: "Zamlers": Profiles of Volunteer Book Collectors

09 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate the Yiddish Book Center's 40th anniversary in 2020, we're looking back at the Center's storied history. As part of this effort, we wanted...

Episode 0245: "Zamlers": Profiles of Volunteer Book Collectors

03 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate the Yiddish Book Center's 40th anniversary in 2020, we're looking back at the Center's storied history. As part of this effort, we wanted...

Episode 0244: "Zamlers": Profiles of Volunteer Book Collectors

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is the first in our series of conversations with Yiddish Book Center "zamlers" (volunteer book collectors). To celebrate the Yiddish B...

Episode 0243: "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish"

16 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Co-editors Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert visit with The Shmooze to talk about their newly released anthology "How Yiddish Changed America and How Amer...

Episode 0242: "'Judaism Unbound' Podcast Considers Yiddish in America"

04 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we visit with Daniel Libenson, host of the "Judaism Unbound" podcast. Daniel talks about the launch of a new series of episodes entitled "Yi...

Episode 0241: "Rokhl Kafrissen Visits with 'The Shmooze'"

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"The Shmooze" caught up with Rokhl Kafrissen--journalist, playwright, and Jewish world gadfly--in New York. During our visit we spoke about her engage...

Episode 0240: "Riffing with Alex Weiser"

12 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In a conversation with Alex Weiser, composer and the director of public programs at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, we learn about his debut a...

Episode 0239: "'A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America'"

05 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Shmooze, we visit with Kirsten Fermaglich, author of "A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America," a...

Episode 0238: "Daniel Kennedy: Translating Hersh Dovid Nomberg's 'Warsaw Stories'"

26 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Shmooze caught up with literary translator Daniel Kennedy at his home in France to chat about the recently published "Warsaw Stories," a collectio...

Episode 0237: "Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet's South Beach 1977–1980"

21 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brett Sokol, journalist, arts editor, and co-founder and editor of the recently published "Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet's South Beach 1977...

Episode 0236: "Great Jewish Books Book Club"

06 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Ronfeld dropped by The Shmooze recording studio to chat about the Great Jewish Books Book Club. Over the course of a lively discussion, we lear...

Episode 0235: "At the Forefront of Yiddish Translation"

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded live at the Yiddish Book Center's Community Open House in October 2019, Lisa Newman, director of communications, and Mindl Cohen, director of...

Episode 0234: "Harold Bloom: The Late, Legendary, Literary Scholar"

23 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we visit with Christa Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, to talk about the oral history interview s...

Episode 0233: "Yiddish for Dogs"

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we visit with Ann Toback, executive director of The Workmen's Circle in New York City, to hear about their program that brings owners and th...

Episode 0232: "Sarah Abrevaya Stein: A Story of Sephardic Jewish History Through a Family's Journey"

10 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Abrevaya Stein, professor of history and Jewish studies at UCLA, talks with The Shmooze about her new book "Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey T...

Episode 0231: "My Aunt Cipe Pineles"

22 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Bob Schor chats with The Shmooze about his remarkable aunt Cipe Pineles. Born in Vienna in 1908 to an Orthodox Jewish family, Cipe immigrated to New Y...

Episode 0230: "'Re-Reading Bellow, Roth, Malamud, Ozick, and Other Great Jewish Writers'"

13 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, The Shmooze visits with editor and author Stephen Shepard to talk about his literary memoir "A Literary Journey to Jewish Identity: Re-Read...

Episode 0229: "Yiddish on Stage and Screen: Allen Lewis Rickman Gets 'Serious'"

22 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Allen Lewis Rickman, producer, director, and performer of Yiddish theater, joins The Shmooze to talk about his work translating Yiddish for the stage ...

Episode 0228: "'Asymptote's' Yiddish Poetry in Translation"

16 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Dickow visited with The Shmooze to talk about "Asymptote's" recently published Yiddish poetry in translation feature that he co-edited with ...

Episode 0227: "Anita Norich's newly translated 'A Jewish Refugee in New York'"

08 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Shmooze we visit with Anita Norich to talk about the recently published "A Jewish Refugee in New York" by Kadia Molodovsky, translate...

Episode 0226: "Caraid O'Brien: Yiddish Translator, Actor, and Writer"

31 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Caraid O'Brien joined us in the studio this week. Caraid is a writer, Yiddish translator, and performer who first began learning Yiddish as a Yiddish ...

Episode 0225: "Zangwill's Spitalfields and London's East End"

18 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Nadia Valman, Reader in English Literature at Queen Mary, University of London, visits with us to talk about her walking tour of Zangwill's Spitalfiel...

Ep0224 Seth Rogovoy

27 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock's artistic director and the author of "The Essential Klezmer," joins us to talk about Yidstock 2019, the Yiddish Book Center's...

Episode 0223: "The Story Behind Newly Translated Yiddish Correspondence"

20 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mindl Cohen joins us on The Shmooze to talk about the "2019 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue," a collection of letters and stories about letters....

Episode 0222: "'Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays'"

13 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Chava Rosenfarb's daughter and translator, Goldie Morgentaler, visits with us this week to talk about the recently released "Confessions of a Yiddish ...

Episode 0221: "Inside 'Hankus's Closet'"

30 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hankus Netsky joins us to share the finds that he and Yiddish Book Center staff unearthed as they cleared out a closet at the Yiddish Book Center. Kno...

Episode 0220: "A Conversation with Daniel Kahn"

22 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Detroit-born, Berlin-based singer/songwriter, polyglot poet, translator and activist Daniel Kahn joins us on The Shmooze for an expansive conversation...

Episode 0219: "Considering Jewish Children's Literature"

07 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Meredith Lewis, director of content, education, and family experience for PJ Library in North America, visits with us during Tent: Children's Literatu...

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

18 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 0217: "Mikhail Krutikov on the Enigmatic Der Nister”

12 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Shmooze, Lisa Newman talks to Mikail Krutikov, Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Preston ...

Episode 0216: "Alana Newhouse on 'The 100 Most Jewish Foods: A Highly Debatable List'"

04 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 0215: "'Grains of Wheat': Abigail Weaver on the Paper Brigade"

21 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Lisa Newman talks to Smith College senior Abigail Weaver about "Grains of Wheat," her play about the Jewish intellectuals, known as the Pap...

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

20 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 an...

Episode 213: "'Vilna:' The Play"

26 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

13 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Heather Valencia joins us from Scotland to talk about her newly published translation of "Seeds in the Desert." Available for the first time in transl...

Episode 211: "Yiddish Theater's Vilna Troupe"

08 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Debra Caplan, Yiddish theater historian and Assistant Professor of Theater at Baruch College, joins us this week to discuss her book, "Yiddish Empire:...

Episode 0210: "Andrea Simon on 'Angel Wagenstein: Art is a Weapon'"

31 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Director Andrea Simon joins us to discuss her documentary, Angel Wagenstein: Art is a Weapon. This extraordinary film focuses on the life of Angel Wag...

Episode 0209: "The Reading Culture of Yiddish-Speaking Immigrants"

10 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Eric L. Goldstein, professor of American and modern Jewish history at Emory University and the Judith London Evans Director of Emory’s Tam Institute...

Episode 0208: "The Shraybmashin-brigade: In Search of Yiddish Typewriters"

03 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...