Best Blue S Library Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 0373: Nathan-ism: The Story of Artist Nathan Hilu 15:22

1M ago15:22

15:22

Filmaker Elan Golod visits with "The Shmooze" to talk about his documentary "Nathan-ism." The film tells the story of Nathan Hilu, the son of Syrian Jewish immigrants to New York who received a life-changing assignment from the U.S. Army: to guard the top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials. This experience fueled a lifetime of artistic insp…

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Episode 0372: The Yiddish Folksong Project 16:40

1M ago16:40

16:40

Kimberly Lazzeri joins "The Shmooze" to talk about the recently released "Yiddish Folksong Project Anthology." Kimberly shares the story behind this collection of Robert De Cormier’s folksong arrangements, which had been in a storage closet for over forty years. This is the first-ever publication of De Cormier’s arrangements of Yiddish folksongs an…

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Episode 0371: After 80 Years Postcards Find Their Way Home to Lublin 27:18

2M ago27:18

27:18

Piotr Nazaruk and Karla McCabe joined "The Shmooze" to tell the story of the thirty-six postcards that Karla recently hand-delivered to Pitor Nazaruk at a ceremony in Lublin, Poland. Karla explains how this collection of postcards were looted from the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in the war and now, eighty years later, have found their way back home.Epi…

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Episode 0370: Sivan Slapak’s Here Is Still Here 20:51

2M ago20:51

20:51

Writer Sivan Slapak visits with "The Shmooze" to talk about her debut collection, "Here Is Still Here." The stories provide a layered exploration of human connection and the complexities of identity. In conversation, Sivan shares how these stories—which take readers from Montreal to Jerusalem and back again as the main character navigates checkpoin…

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Episode 0369: Yiddish Culture in America 36:13

3M ago36:13

36:13

"The Shmooze" visits with Sebastian Schulman for a chat about Yiddish culture in America as we celebrate American Jewish Heritage Month. In conversation he shares some of what he’s found on the Yiddish Book Center’s website related to the Jewish American experience—Yiddish writers in America, Jewish food, Yiddish film, immigration, activism, and mo…

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From Pikes Peak to Bonneville Salt Flats, Lightning Motorcycles electric bike outpaces the combustion engine motorcycles 30:23

4M ago30:23

30:23

Podcast host David Krakauer, VP of Corporate Marketing and Channel Strategy Special Guest: Richard Hatfield, founder and CEO of Lightning Motorcycles Lightning Motorcycles, located in San Jose, California, is one of the leading electric motorcycle designers in the world. Richard Hatfield, founder and CEO of Lightning Motorcycles, vision for an elec…

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Episode 0368: in a dark blue night: two song cycles on Yiddish/Jewish New York 20:36

4M ago20:36

20:36

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,” transfor…

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Episode 0367: The Yiddish Book Center’s Bossie Dubowick YiddishSchool 25:15

4M ago25:15

25:15

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 367March 11, 2024Amherst, MABy Yiddish Book Center

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Episode 0366:The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York 24:09

4M ago24:09

24:09

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 his…

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HNT 266: Old People Rant about the Creeping Crud. Vaccines. Social Media. Gila Monster. Neurolink. 1:02:31

5M ago1:02:31

1:02:31

We’ve had a long lasting crud. We aren’t all the way dead. And we don’t want to turn into the old folks talking about their health concerns. But here we are. It’s only fair since vaccines could help so many kids. The measles are miserable. Does it make a difference if you speak out or explain your opinion on social media? Are we living in 1984? Don…

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Episode 0365: Across So Many Seas 20:06

5M ago20:06

20:06

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 religio…

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Episode 0364: A Worker’s Yiddish Library on View 23:48

6M ago23:48

23:48

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 Y…

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Episode 0363: Telling the Story of Yiddish Theater 33:41

6M ago33:41

33:41

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 t…

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HIRO pushes Europe to the Edge with high performance microdata centers 34:14

6M ago34:14

34:14

HIRO pushes Europe to the Edge with high performance microdata centers Demystifying edge computing- what it is today and promise for tomorrow Podcast host David Krakauer, VP of Corporate Marketing and Channel Strategy Special Guest: Fred Buining CTO of HIRO-MicroDataCenters A Dutch entrepreneurial technology company, HIRO-MicroDataCenters develops …

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Episode 0362: Staging Mikhl Yashinsky’s American Yiddish Drama 22:50

7M ago22:50

22:50

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…

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Episode 0361: New in Translation: Yiddish Writer Frume Halpern 25:53

7M ago25:53

25:53

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 …

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Episode 0360: Shir Hashirim (The Song of Songs): A Yiddish Operetta 31:02

7M ago31:02

31:02

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 child…

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Episode 0359: Jewish Anarchist Histories Reclaimed 30:57

8M ago30:57

30:57

"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 is…

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Episode 0358: Kristen Morgenstern’s Zine: Irena Klepfisz: The Life of the Fighter 22:45

8M ago22:45

22:45

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 358November 21, 2023Amherst, MA…

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Episode 0357: Amid Falling Walls: A Groundbreaking Musical 20:57

8M ago20:57

20:57

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…

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Episode 0356: Faith Jones on Translating Shira Gorshman 26:48

8M ago26:48

26:48

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 t…

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HNT 265: The Great Escape. Remodeling. Etiquette. Collective Soul. New Rap Super Star. 51:28

9M ago51:28

51:28

We’re remodeling and one of our fur babies disappeared. We were distraught. She was traumatized. Etiquette is necessary for groups to get along. I went with a buddy to see Collective Soul. They were fantastic and I discovered a bad I missed. Footballer Michael Irvin has given rise to the next rap supper star, and he called him out.…

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VideoRay drives safe, effective underwater exploration leveraging AI and today’s newest technologies 33:19

9M ago33:19

33:19

VideoRay drives underwater exploration leveraging AI and the newest technologies using Vicor power modules Podcast host David Krakauer, Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Channel Special Guest: Marcus Kolb, Chief Technology Officer and Gamini Dharmasena, Senior Electronics Engineer at VideoRay, a leading manufacturer of underwater remote ope…

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Episode 0355: David Mazower on Yiddish: A Global Culture 24:57

10M ago24:57

24:57

"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 …

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The best battery on Earth is free and it is powering the new Blue Economy 27:11

11M ago27:11

27:11

Podcast host Robert Gendron, Corporate Vice President, Product Development Special Guest: Reenst Lesemann, CEO at C-Power, in Corvallis, OR. Columbia Power Technologies, Inc., or C-Power, is a global leader in wave energy systems. They are helping to expand the Blue Economy by providing reliable, cost-effective energy generation and storage, as wel…

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HNT 264: Soup Beans and Cornbread. How to Live Longer. Divorce for the Kids. Phil Michelson. Twitter X. 56:47

11M ago56:47

56:47

Soup Beans and Cornbread are an Appalachian delicacy, and I’m a lucky woman because Hank is a hillbilly chef. How to live longer? We’re doing pretty good. Do you stay together or get divorced for the kids? It’s sad how many have to make that decision. Phil Mickelson bets a lot. A whole lot. And what is Twitter now? X?…

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HNT 263: Ah Ha Moments. Hot Flashes. Jury Duty. Our Mall Date. JFK & UFO’s. Jack the Ripper. Are We in the Matrix? 59:09

12M ago59:09

59:09

Ah Ha moments. I was today years old when I found out. Shoutout to Men’s Warehouse and film by the foot. Testosterone has been great, but now something else is outta whack for me. Hot Flashes are horrible. Hank had Jury Duty but he didn’t get picked. We went to the mall, and kids on those roving stiffed riding animals horrify me. Wait till grandma …

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HNT 262: Our Bitty Buddy Bonnie. Tipping. Where’s the Recession? FIFO with the VID. Workplace Jargon Tripping up the Youngins. Harvard Morgue. 1:00:09

1y ago1:00:09

1:00:09

It’s our pleasure to introduce our second pod cat, the Bonnie Situation. Tipping is out of control. Either people who know damn good and well tipping is expected at all sit down diners and DON’T or websites and vending machines want tips. And the expected amount is crazy. But maybe that’s because we’re all expecting a recession that’s not materiali…

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Episode 0354: Women on the Yiddish Stage 32:50

1y ago32:50

32:50

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 354June 15, 2023Amherst, MABy Yiddish Book Center

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Episode 0353: The Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project 20:30

1y ago20:30

20:30

On a visit with "The Shmooze," photographer Marisa Scheinfeld 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 353June 8, 2023Amherst, MABy Yiddish Book Center

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The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast

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Vicor Powering Innovation Podcast

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Hillbilly Nerd Talk

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Episode 0373: Nathan-ism: The Story of Artist Nathan Hilu 15:22

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Episode 0372: The Yiddish Folksong Project 16:40

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Episode 0371: After 80 Years Postcards Find Their Way Home to Lublin 27:18

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Episode 0370: Sivan Slapak’s Here Is Still Here 20:51

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Episode 0369: Yiddish Culture in America 36:13

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From Pikes Peak to Bonneville Salt Flats, Lightning Motorcycles electric bike outpaces the combustion engine motorcycles 30:23

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Episode 0368: in a dark blue night: two song cycles on Yiddish/Jewish New York 20:36

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Episode 0367: The Yiddish Book Center’s Bossie Dubowick YiddishSchool 25:15

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Episode 0366:The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York 24:09

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HNT 266: Old People Rant about the Creeping Crud. Vaccines. Social Media. Gila Monster. Neurolink. 1:02:31

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Episode 0365: Across So Many Seas 20:06

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Episode 0364: A Worker’s Yiddish Library on View 23:48

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Episode 0363: Telling the Story of Yiddish Theater 33:41

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HIRO pushes Europe to the Edge with high performance microdata centers 34:14

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Episode 0362: Staging Mikhl Yashinsky’s American Yiddish Drama 22:50

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Episode 0361: New in Translation: Yiddish Writer Frume Halpern 25:53

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Episode 0360: Shir Hashirim (The Song of Songs): A Yiddish Operetta 31:02

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Episode 0359: Jewish Anarchist Histories Reclaimed 30:57

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Episode 0358: Kristen Morgenstern’s Zine: Irena Klepfisz: The Life of the Fighter 22:45

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Episode 0357: Amid Falling Walls: A Groundbreaking Musical 20:57

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Episode 0356: Faith Jones on Translating Shira Gorshman 26:48

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HNT 265: The Great Escape. Remodeling. Etiquette. Collective Soul. New Rap Super Star. 51:28

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VideoRay drives safe, effective underwater exploration leveraging AI and today’s newest technologies 33:19

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Episode 0355: David Mazower on Yiddish: A Global Culture 24:57

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The best battery on Earth is free and it is powering the new Blue Economy 27:11

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HNT 264: Soup Beans and Cornbread. How to Live Longer. Divorce for the Kids. Phil Michelson. Twitter X. 56:47

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HNT 263: Ah Ha Moments. Hot Flashes. Jury Duty. Our Mall Date. JFK & UFO’s. Jack the Ripper. Are We in the Matrix? 59:09

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HNT 262: Our Bitty Buddy Bonnie. Tipping. Where’s the Recession? FIFO with the VID. Workplace Jargon Tripping up the Youngins. Harvard Morgue. 1:00:09

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Episode 0354: Women on the Yiddish Stage 32:50

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Episode 0353: The Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project 20:30

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