The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast
Episodes
Episode 0107: A Week Exploring Great Jewish Books
15 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
At the Great Jewish Books Summer Program, high school students spend a week at the Yiddish Book Center delving into both classic and new works of mode...
Episode 0106: Rediscovering the "Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook"
03 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 1938, Fania Lewando, the chef and owner of a popular vegetarian restaurant in Vilna, Lithuania, published hundreds of her recipes—from traditiona...
Episode 0105: "Deli Man": A Delicious Jewish Tradition
02 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Filmmaker Erik Anjou's latest documentary, "Deli Man," tells the story of third-generation deli man Ziggy Gruber. In our conversation with Anjou, he t...
Episode 0104: A Stop at the Iconic Red Apple Restaurant
26 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
For much of the twentieth century, the Red Apple Rest offered respite to countless weary vacationers traveling Route 17 between New York City and the ...
Episode 0103: Holocaust Survivor Band: The Power of Music
11 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Saul Dreier and Ruby Sosnowicz's recently founded Holocaust Survivor Band has become an overnight sensation. Drier and Sosnowicz took time out of thei...
Episode 0102: The Jewish Roots of "Yiddish Fight Club"
02 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Curator Eddy Portnoy shares the story behind "Yiddish Fight Club," a new exhibit at YIVO about Jewish boxers and wrestlers. The exhibit looks at the r...
Episode 0101: The Plunder of Jewish Books
05 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with Mark Glickman, author of the upcoming "Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books." Glickman shares the story of how the ...
Episode 0100: Echoes from the Borcht Belt: Through a Contemporary Lens
30 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We visit with photographer Marisa Scheinfeld to talk about her work chronicling the ever-evolving landscape of the Borscht Belt. The resulting work, "...
Episode 0099: Bringing Classic Yiddish Tales to Life
20 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning children's book author and artist (and native Yiddish speaker) Uri Shulevitz's illustrious career has included illustrating classic Yidd...
Episode 0098: Kitchen Kibitz: The Pop-Up Jewish Dinner Club
07 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Gabel, founder of the Boston-based Kitchen Kibitz, tells us about his pop-up dinner project, which explores modern takes on Jewish cuisine. Gabel...
Episode 0097: "Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream"
25 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In his new documentary, "Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream," director Michael Levine profiles the last family-owned matzo company in the U.S. and...
Episode 0096: Four Questions, 300 Languages
19 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
For more than thirty years, Murray Spiegel and his longtime friend Rickey Stein have been on a quest to translate the Four Questions of the Passover s...
Episode 0095: The Story of He'Brew: The Chosen Beer
06 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Cowan tells us how he combined his love of craft beer and of Jewish culture and literature to create his Shmaltz Brewing Company. Episode 0095...
Episode 0093: Eating Delancey: A Celebration in Words and Photographs
18 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
We visit with Aaron Rezny and Jordan Schaps, co-authors of the newly published "Eating Delancey." The book celebrates the delis and restaurants of the...
Episode 0092: Southern Jewish Life: A Conversation with Macy Hart
23 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Last month at Tent: The South, we caught up with Macy Hart, director of the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute for Southern Jewish Life, who talked with us...
Episode 0091: "Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers"
05 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with Scott Davis, publisher of the recently released "Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers," an edition of newly transl...
Episode 0090: Felix Lembersky: Soviet Form, Jewish Context
12 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Painter Felix Lembersky resisted the strictures imposed by the state during the Soviet era to follow his own artistic inclinations, at great personal ...
Episode 0089: Great Jewish Books: Young Readers Explore New Worlds
02 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Three high-school students share what it's like to spend a week reading, discussing, and arguing about modern Jewish literature at the Great Jewish Bo...
Episode 0088: The Lost Shul Murals
22 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Former Vermont Governor and Ambassador to Switzerland Madeleine Kunin tells us about the Lost Shul Mural Project. An effort is underway in Burlington,...
Episode 0087: Seven Weeks of Yiddish: Three Students Reflect on Their Experience
09 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
During a visit with Yiddish Book Center Steiner Summer Yiddish Program students Liza Wahlberg, Zeev Duckworth, and Michael Yashinsky, we learn what dr...
Episode 0086: Bess Selevan: Volunteer Zamler (Book Collector)
20 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
For nearly thirty years Bess Selevan has been a zamler for the Yiddish Book Center. Over the years Bess has shipped over 3,600 books to the Yiddish Bo...
Episode 0085: Collecting Ladino Books: A Conversation with Devin Naar
06 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with Professor Devin Naar to discuss Ladino, the Judaeo-Spanish language which was developed in parallel with Yiddish. We learn ab...
Episode 0084: A Long Life in Yiddish: Herschel Melamed
08 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
We visit with Myra Melamed, daughter of Yiddish singer Herschel Melamed, to learn about the recently produced CD, "Herschel Melamed: 18 Songs." Episo...
Episode 0083: From the Lower East Side to Biblical Stories: The Art of Nathan Hilu
10 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Curator Laura Kruger discusses the work of artist Nathan Hilu. Kruger is the curator of "Nathan Hilu's Journal: Word, Image, Memory" which is currentl...
Episode 0082: At Ninety: The World's First Jewish Sit-Down Comedian
02 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
We visit with Anita Garlick, a ninety-year old 'sit-down' Jewish comedian who came to comedy late in life. Anita's comedy draws from her Jewish roots ...
Episode 0081: Translating Experimental Yiddish Poet Celia Dropkin
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
We visit with translator Faith Jones to learn about the recently published "The Acrobat: the Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin." Jones, who collaborated...
Episode 0080: Alice Hoffman: "The Museum of Extraordinary Things"
27 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
We visit with author Alice Hoffman to talk about her latest work, "The Museum of Extraordinary Things." During our visit we learn about Hoffman's gran...
Episode 0079: Grandma's Chicken Soup: Delivered Overnight
11 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The 'Grandma' behind Grandma's Chicken Soup tells us how she launched a mail-order chicken soup business. From her kitchen to your table (matzoh balls...
Episode 0078: Blue Moon Hotel: A Storied History Restored
05 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In a conversation with Randy Settenbrino, owner of the Blue Moon Hotel in New York, we learn how he transformed a 19th-century Lower East Side tenemen...
Episode 0077: "A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of a Neighbourhood"
25 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with George Ellenbogen, author of the recently published memoir "A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of a Neighbourhood." Ellenbogen, wh...
Episode 0076: "In the Shadow of the Shtetl": Telling the Story of Small-Town Jewish Life
06 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In a visit with author Jeffrey Veidlinger we learn how his recently published book, "In the Shadow of the Shtetl," tells the story of traditional smal...
Episode 0075: Yiddish Translation in the 21st Century
21 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with Sebastian Schulman to learn what is new in the field of Yiddish translation - from the recent launch of the Center's groundbr...
Episode 0094: Jewish Cuba: A Conversation with Adela Dworin
11 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ruth Behar, an anthropologist from the University of Michigan, talks to Adela Dworin, president of the Jewish Community of Cuba in Havana. Last fall, ...
Episode 0074: Jeremy Dauber on "The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem"
20 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with Jeremy Dauber, author of the recently published "The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem." Dauber and Lansky discuss this most beloved ...
Episode 0073: An Exhibit Tells the Universal Story of the Emigrant
04 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In a visit with curator Patricia Klindienst we learn how a simple postcard led her to reconstruct the story of Abram Spiwak and Sophie Schochetman - t...
Episode 0072: The Pin: A Yiddish Language Film
07 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Naomi Jaye, director of "The Pin," shares the story behind this Yiddish-language film about two young people who experience love and loss while in hid...
Episode 0071: Forty Notable Jewish Writers: Jules Chametzky Reminisces
09 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A lively and informative visit with Jules Chametzky, critic of Jewish American literature and author of the recently published "Out of Brownsville: En...
Episode 0070: Danny Kaye: A Look at the Early Years of the Famed Tummler
10 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In a visit with film historian Bruce Lawton, we learn about the early work of Danny Kaye - from his first appearances on stages in the Borscht Belt to...
Episode 0069: Allan Sherman: The Backstory
06 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with Mark Cohen, author of the recently released "Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman." We learn about Sher...
Episode 0068: Jewish Genealogy: A First-Hand Account
23 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent visit with Heidi Urich, co-chair of the IAJGS conference, we learned how Urich has spent the past twenty years working to build her family...
Episode 0067: The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
02 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We visit with film critic Kenneth Turan to talk about the documentary film "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg." The film will be screened at the Yi...
Episode 0066: Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity
18 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Schulman visits with scholar and author Dr. Jess Olson to learn about Olson's newly published book "Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity." ...
Episode 0065: A Growing Archive of Yiddish Oral Histories
11 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with Christa Whitney, the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project director, to talk about her recent fieldwork in Poland...
Episode 0064: On Translating The Zelmenyaners - A Classic Yiddish Work
04 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We visit with scholar Sasha Senderovich to learn about "The Zelmenyaners," one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century, now in a new Englis...
Episode 0063: Yidstock 2013: Top Names in Klezmer to Perform July 18-21
18 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We visit with author, music critic, and Yidstock program director Seth Rogovoy to learn about Yidstock 2013 - from the opening concert with the Klezme...
Episode 0062: Illustrating Letters To A Yiddish Advice Column
06 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We visit with artist Liana Finck to learn about her illustration exhibit "A Bintel Brief." On display at the Yiddish Book Center through October, 2013...
Episode 0061: Realizing Yiddish Translation in the 21st Century
28 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with Sebastian Schulman, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Yiddish Translation Fellowship Program, to learn about the launch o...
Episode 0060: Jewish Cuba: A First-Hand Account
21 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In a conversation with author, scholar, and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar, Sebastian Schulman learns about Behar's Jewish Cuban roots, her family...
Episode 0059: Newly Named Yiddish Translation Fellows
05 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with the Yiddish Book Center's newly announced Translation Fellows to learn about their interest in Yiddish and their translation ...
Episode 0058: A New Take on Gefilte Fish
18 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Yoskowitz, one of the founders of The Gefilteria, speaks with us about their new take on gefilte fish, beet kvass cocktails, Passover, and Jew...
Episode 0057: Delving into the Life and Work of Itzik Manger
11 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with Professor Efrat Gal- Ed to discuss the work of researching and writing a biography on Yiddish writer Itzik Manger. Episode 0...
Episode 0056: Recommended Reading
04 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Katchor's "Hand-Drying in America" and Mark Russ Federman's "Russ & Daughters," a cookbook memoir, are the new releases recommended by Emma Morgen...
Episode 0055: Yiddish in Israel?
22 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky speaks with Mendy Cahan, the head of Yung Yidish and a moving force behind the surprising resurgence of Yiddish in Israel. Episode 0055 ...
Episode 0054: The Story of a Zamler (Volunteer Book Collector)
28 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Robert 'Itzik' Goldenberg has been a zamler (a volunteer book collector) for the Yiddish Book Center for the past 20 years. In a conversation with Aar...
Episode 0053: "Frishe nayes" (Fresh News) from the Yiddish Book Center
14 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
During an engaging, reflective, and lively conversation with Aaron Lansky, we learn what's new at the Yiddish Book Center - educational programs, tran...
Episode 0052: Recommended Reading
08 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We visit with Emma Morgenstern, director of the Jewish Book Council Network, to learn about a few recently published recommended reads. Episode 0052 ...
Episode 0051: Now in Yiddish-- "Der Hobit (The Hobbit)"
17 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Barry Goldstein's Yiddish translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" has just been released. Aaron Lansky visits with Goldstein to learn how and why...
Episode 0050: Tori Avey on Making the Perfect Latke
11 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Tori Avey visits with us to talk about Jewish food and to share tips on making the perfect latke. A convert to Judaism, Tori is a "culinary anthropolo...
Episode 0049: A Trove of Yiddish Recordings
03 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Jordan Kutzik, senior fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, is overseeing the restoration and remastering of some 1,000 hours of archival recordings of Y...
Episode 0048: Behind the Scenes of "Deli Man"
26 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning director Erik Anjou talks to us about his latest documentary project "The Deli Man." Anjou has been traveling across the country in purs...
Episode 0047: A Photographer Remembers Yiddish New York in the 1960s
19 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Photographer Arnold Chekow visits with Aaron Lansky to share stories about the Yiddish cultural icons he photographed in New York in the 1960s. Episo...
Episode 0046: Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary
12 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The story behind the newly released "Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary." Professor Solon Beinfeld and Dr. Harry Bochner, editors of the new "C...
Episode 0045: A Conversation with Yiddish Book Center Fellows
27 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A month into their Fellowship, Jessica Parker and Allison Posner sit down to answer our questions about their work and their interest and passion for ...
Episode 0044: What's Tent?
22 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with Tent's program director, Josh Lambert, to discuss the Yiddish Book Center's new program. Tent will offer immersive, intense, ...
Episode 0043: Ilan Stavans in Conversation
22 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Author, culture commentator, and scholar Ilan Stavans speaks with Josh Lambert about a program originally planned for November 2012. Yiddish con Salsa...
Episode 0042: From Baltimore to Vilnius: Yiddish Stories from Around the World
10 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This summer Christa Whitney took the Wexler Oral History Project out of the Yiddish Book Center's studio and into the field. Whitney tells us about th...
Episode 0041: Yiddish and Ladino: Understanding Jewish Languages
04 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Sephardic Studies professor and author Sarah Abrevaya Stein talks about editing the translation of a Ladino memoir into English and how her internship...
Episode 0040: A Virtual Shtetl Explores Yiddish and Jewish Culture
28 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Shtetl Montreal founder Tamara Kramer discusses her online magazine and radio show and tells us how both push the envelope when it comes to culture, i...
Episode 0039: Poetry, Criticism, and the Jewish Literary Landscape
21 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch reflects on his early introduction to Jewish literature, and shares reading and writing advice he'll offer to stu...
Episode 0038: All Things Yiddish
14 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In a visit with Aaron Lansky we learn about new Yiddish-related technology, and get a recap of Yiddish Book Center events, from the Great Jewish Books...
Episode 0037: Staging Modern Adaptations of Yiddish Plays
07 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen Perecman, founder of the New Worlds Theatre Project, discusses the process of choosing, translating, and producing Yiddish plays for an English-...
Episode 0036: Students Reflect on Yiddish and Jewish Identity
01 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Steiner Summer Yiddish Program students Dory Fox and Jamie Nadel reflect on how the program provided them with a new understanding of Jewish culture. ...
Episode 0035: Lost Embrace
25 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Los Angeles Times and NPR film critic Kenneth Turan talks with us about "Lost Embrace" (Argentina's 2004 Academy Award entry/Best Foreign Film), the e...
Episode 0034: Global Jewish Comedy
13 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Noah Gardenswartz is a stand-up comedian performing three shows of “global Jewish comedy” on the East Coast next week. Listen in as he talks about...
Episode 0033: Peter Manseau on Yiddish and Writing
10 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Manseau won the National Jewish Book Award for "Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter," a semi-autobiographical and semi-historical novel about Yid...
Episode 0032: Flying Klezmer
03 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Lemon Bucket Orkestra went viral this spring with a video of an impromptu klezmer performance on a delayed flight from Toronto to Frankfurt. Emma ...
Episode 0030: Old Jews Telling Jokes Onstage
26 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Okrent, co-creator of "Old Jews Telling Jokes Onstage," talks somewhat seriously about the comedic off-Broadway production, or as he refers to it,...
Episode 0031: A 14-Year-Old Who Rescues Yiddish Books
26 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Fourteen-year-old Emma Lezberg, the Yiddish Book Center's youngest zamler (volunteer book collector), talks about about why she started collecting Yid...
Episode 0029: Behind the Scenes of Holy Ground
19 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Greenberg Anjou, director of the acclaimed documentary "The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground," talks about the making of the film and the upbeat messag...
Episode 0028: All Things Yiddish
18 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
There’s no shortage of news from the Yiddish Book Center these days: classes have begun for the Steiner Summer Yiddish Program students, we’re gea...
Episode 0027: The Fugs' Yiddish Inspiration
12 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Fugs, a 1960s garage band, made frequent use of bongos, curse words, and protest poetry. They also used Yiddish songs and other Jewish source mate...
Episode 0026: Chana Mlotek: The Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish Songs
07 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with Chana Mlotek. The ninety-year-old Mlotek works three days a week as the music archivist at YIVO, where she began working as M...
Episode 0025: Eleanor Reissa
05 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Seth Rogovoy talks with Yiddish vocalist Eleanor Reissa about her upcoming performance at Yidstock. Reissa will be singing with Frank London's Klezmer...
Episode 0024: Seth Rogovoy on Yidstock
24 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Yidstock will bring some of the top names in klezmer to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center. Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock's program organizer, explains how...
Episode 0023: 1,000 Yiddish Schools
22 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Jewish educator Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich talks with Aaron Lansky about her work documenting every Yiddish school in North America. These schools,...
Episode 0022: All Things Yiddish
15 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
When asked what's new at the Yiddish Book Center, Aaron Lansky had plenty to report: the opening of a new interactive exhibit, a recap of the recent C...
Episode 0021: Out of Steel Comes "Yiddish"
09 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Two years and four thousand pounds of Cor-Ten steel in the making, Simon Kogan's sculpture "Yiddish" has been installed on the grounds at the Yiddish ...
Episode 0020: Chaim Grade's Elegy for the Soviet Yiddish Writers
24 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Fellow Josh Price reads an excerpt from Chaim Grade's poem "Ikh veyn af aykh mit ale oysyes fun dem alef-beys" ("I weep for you with all the letters o...
Episode 0019: Writer Ilan Stavans Discusses His Fotonovela Once@9:53am
17 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Ilan Stavans sits down with Josh Lambert to answer questions about the concept behind his documentary-style fotonovela, Once@9:53am, a fictional medit...
Episode 0018: Yiddish Culture Comes to Life in the Lee & Alfred Hutt Discovery Gallery
11 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with Hankus Netsky, curator of the Lee and Alfred Hutt Discovery Gallery, to learn about the people, stories, artifacts, and inter...
Episode 0017: The Mission to Construct a Replica of a Wooden Synagogue
03 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Rick Brown and his team at Handshouse Studio are constructing an 85 percent scale model of a wooden synagogue inside the Museum of the History of Poli...
Episode 0016: By Design—A New Logo
03 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky and designer Alex Isley (of Alexander Isley Inc.) share the story of how and why the Yiddish Book Center's new logo evolved to include a ...
Episode 0015: American Jews, Maxwell House, and Passover
27 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Nora Feinstein, the woman behind the Maxwell House Haggadah Project, tells us how the coffee company's haggadah came to be a staple at the American se...
Episode 0014: The South African Jewish Experience
20 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
South African native Claudia Braude visits with Aaron Lansky to discuss the rich - and largely untold - history of South African Jewish culture in the...
Episode 0013: Two Trends Find a Home on Yiddish Farm
13 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Naftali Ejdelman, co-founder of Yiddish Farm, talks with Emma Morgenstern about the resurgence of interest in Yiddish and the popularity of the "back-...
Episode 0012: Reading Jewish Books Outside the Classroom
09 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In a conversation with writer Sana Krasikov, Josh Lambert learns which books influenced Krasikov in high school and how literature came alive once she...
Episode 0011: "Bar Mitzvah"
05 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan sheds some light on "Bar Mitzvah," — a 'shund' (lowbrow), yet culturally priceless, Yiddish film from 19...
Episode 0010: Summer Reading—What's on the list for 18 lucky high school students?
28 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Philip Roth's short story "Defender of the Faith" - a work that poses some interesting questions about Jewish identity - is on the reading list for th...
Episode 0009: Yiddish Writer Chaim Grade—The Backstory
21 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky and Justin Cammy explore the who, the why, and the little-known of Chaim Grade the Litvak Yiddish writer par excellence. Professor Justi...
Episode 0008: Collecting Stories
14 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Lansky visits with Christa Whitney, the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project director, to talk about her experience with the projec...