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

Episódios

  • Episode 0368: in a dark blue night: two song cycles on Yiddish/Jewish New York

    13/03/2024 Duração: 20min

    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, individual stories can capture the sweeping breadth of history. Episode 368 March 14, 2024 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0367: The Yiddish Book Center’s Bossie Dubowick YiddishSchool

    12/03/2024 Duração: 25min

    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

  • Episode 0366:The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

    07/03/2024 Duração: 24min

    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

  • Episode 0365: Across So Many Seas

    05/02/2024 Duração: 20min

    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

  • Episode 0364: A Worker’s Yiddish Library on View

    25/01/2024 Duração: 23min

    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 see their family’s “Worker’s Library” on view. Episode 364 January 22, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0363: Telling the Story of Yiddish Theater

    14/01/2024 Duração: 33min

    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 363 January 14, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0363: Staging Mikhl Yashinsky’s American Yiddish Drama

    20/12/2023 Duração: 22min

    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

  • Episode 0361: New in Translation: Yiddish Writer Frume Halpern

    14/12/2023 Duração: 25min

    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 butcher, and a hairdresser. Episode 361 December 14, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0360: Shir Hashirim (The Song of Songs): A Yiddish Operetta

    10/12/2023 Duração: 31min

    Ronald Robboy and Alex Weiser visit with "The Shmooze" to talk about their collaboration on the performance of the music of "Shir Hashirim (The Song of Songs)," a 1911 operetta by Joseph Rumshinsky and Anshel Shor. "Shir Hashirim" is a musical comedy that features several interlocking love triangles, including an aging composer along with his children and their lovers and friends. Reconstructed from a variety of archival materials collected at YIVO, UCLA, and the Library of Congress, the operetta will be performed by students of the Bard Conservatory Vocal Arts Program. Episode 360 December 10, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0359: Jewish Anarchist Histories Reclaimed

    30/11/2023 Duração: 30min

    "The Shmooze" visits with Anna Elena Torres, Kenyon Zimmer, and Ayelet Brinn, editors and contributors to an expansive new volume of essays exploring suppressed histories of Jewish anarchism. "With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism" is a rich collection of essays across radical politics, immigrant history, the Yiddish press, and issues of gender and ethnicity. Episode 359 November 30, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0358: Kristen Morgenstern’s Zine: Irena Klepfisz: The Life of the Fighter

    21/11/2023 Duração: 22min

    On "The Shmooze," Kristen Morgenstern, a senior studying history and theater at Middlebury College, tells the story behind her zine "Irena Klepfisz: The Life of the Fighter." The zine was selected for inclusion in the Yiddish Book Center’s core exhibition, "Yiddish: A Global Culture." Episode 358 November 21, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0357: Amid Falling Walls: A Groundbreaking Musical

    14/11/2023 Duração: 20min

    Avram Mlotek visits with "The Shmooze" to talk about the upcoming performance of Amid Falling Walls, for which Avram created the libretto. "Amid Falling Walls" (Tsvishn falnkike vent) is a groundbreaking musical that pays homage to the perseverance of the human spirit during one of the most devastating moments of history. The performance, presented by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, is composed of songs that were written and performed in ghettos, clandestine cabarets and theaters, forced labor camps, and partisan encampments. Episode 357 November 14, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0356: Faith Jones on Translating Shira Gorshman

    02/11/2023 Duração: 26min

    This week "The Shmooze" visits with translator Faith Jones to talk about her recently released "Meant to Be and Other Stories," by Shira Gorshman (White Goat Press). Shira Gorshman is most notable for her unflinching examination of women’s lives and her willingness to dwell on uncomfortable emotions. Faith shares how Gorshman’s stories follow the trajectory of 20th-century Jewish life in Eastern Europe, from the Lithuanian shtetl to the Russian Revolution, through the kibbutz and collective farms, to Central Asia during wartime, and back to mid-century Soviet life. Episode 356 November 2, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0355: David Mazower on Yiddish: A Global Culture

    21/09/2023 Duração: 24min

    "The Shmooze" sat down with chief curator and writer David Mazower for the first in a series of conversations about the Yiddish Book Center’s landmark permanent exhibition, which opens on October 15, 2023. In describing what visitors will encounter when they view this massive exhibition, David notes, “We’ve created a bright, colorful space full of powerful stories and wonderful objects that make you think but also touch the heart and soul; I want people to see this exhibition and feel inspired, surprised, moved, informed, and entertained.” Episode 356 September 21, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0354: Women on the Yiddish Stage

    14/06/2023 Duração: 32min

    This week on "The Shmooze," editors Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel and Alyssa Quint talk about "Women on the Yiddish Stage," a series of publications that amplifies the voices of women who served as creative leaders in the historical Yiddish theater. Episode 354 June 15, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0353: The Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project

    08/06/2023 Duração: 20min

    On a visit with "The Shmooze," photographer Marisa Sheinfeld talks about her work on The Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project. The resulting work will create a series of markers to commemorate the Borscht Belt era. Episode 353 June 8, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0352: A Life in Yiddish Translation

    16/05/2023 Duração: 27min

    Curt Leviant, professor, novelist, and translator, speaks with "The Shmooze" about his life translating the work of Sholem Aleichem and Chaim Grade, and he shares some stories about his encounters with Nobel laureates. Episode 352 May 16, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0351: Four Days of Concerts: Yidstock 2023

    06/05/2023 Duração: 28min

    "The Shmooze" sits down with Seth Rogovoy to talk about what’s in store for the Yiddish Book Center’s 11th annual Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music (July 13–16). Once again curated by Yidstock artistic director Seth Rogovoy, this year’s festival will bring some audience favorites, including Merlin Shepherd, Nigunim Trio, and Lorin Sklamberg, along with rising stars making their Yidstock debuts, among them Forshpil, Midwood, and Sam Sadigursky—and that’s just some of what we learned about in conversation with Seth. Episode 351 May 7, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0350: Writing the Story of Franya Winter

    30/04/2023 Duração: 23min

    Meryl Frank visits with "The Shmooze" to talk about her recently released book, "Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust." "Unearthed" is the story of Meryl’s search for details about the life and untimely death of Franya Winter, a renowned actor in prewar Vilna. Through archives across four continents, chance encounters and miraculous discoveries, and the shocking truth recorded in the pages of a forbidden book, Meryl conjures a history of hatred, resistance, and the rogue spirit of her cousin—her beauty and her tragedy. Episode 350 April 30, 2023 Amherst, MA

  • Episode 0349: Dear Mr. Dickens: The Story Behind the Letter

    30/03/2023 Duração: 28min

    Award-winning children’s book author Nancy Churnin talks with "The Shmooze" about her illustrated children’s book "Dear Mr. Dickens," which tells the true story of Eliza Davis. In Eliza Davis’s day, Charles Dickens was the most celebrated living writer in England. But some of his books reflected a mindset that was all too common at the time: prejudice against Jewish people. Eliza was Jewish and wanted to point out how unfair that was—even if it meant speaking out against the great writer. So she wrote a letter to Dickens himself. What happened next is history. Episode 349 March 30, 2023 Amherst, MA

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