Best Yiddish Book Center Podcasts (2024)

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

29d 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 27: Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field | Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold 1:04:59

23d ago1:04:59

1:04:59

How do educators from differing pedagogical orientations learn, undertake, and ultimately improve the work of teaching Israel? In this conversation, Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field editors Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold discussed the complex issues facing those who teach about Israel, along with respondents Lisa Grant (Hebrew Uni…

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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

1M 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 26: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Jewish Education 1:10:23

2M ago1:10:23

1:10:23

In this special event, authors from a recent themed issue of Journal of Jewish Education discussed their articles on race, ethnicity, and immigration in Jewish education. The issue spotlights the experiences of underrepresented individuals and serves as compelling testimony to the diverse array of Jewish experiences and identities, challenging prev…

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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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Episode 25: Visualizing Jewish Texts and Practices through the Graphic Novel | Dr. Talia Hurwich 28:08

3M ago28:08

28:08

What happens when students of classical Jewish texts encounter visual representations of those texts, not just words? In her recent study Reconsidering Religious Gender Normativity in Graphic Novel Adaptations, Talia Hurwich learned that students often respond in deeply personal ways to visual representations of topics that may otherwise be suppres…

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Do good deeds offset bad deeds? How do our families shape who we become?- Highlights - DAN FUTTERMAN & ADAM RAPP 11:07

3M ago11:07

11:07

"S. E. Hinton, Susie Hinton wrote The Outsiders when she was 15 and 16. It was published when she was 17. She was told by one editor in particular that she couldn't have any swear words, so she was sort of forced to write about these very big, intense, love-and-death operatic themes where there's a boy who dies by suicide by cop. There's a boy who …

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The Outsiders Musical & American Rust w/ ADAM RAPP & DAN FUTTERMAN - Award-winning Writers 39:11

3M ago39:11

39:11

What role do the families we’re born into or the traumas we experience shape the people we become? Do good deeds offset bad deeds? How can the arts increase our capacity for empathy, understanding, and kindness? Dan Futterman is creator, executive producer, and writer of Amazon Prime's American Rust, the acclaimed crime drama starring Jeff Daniels,…

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Intimacy Coordinator & Movement Director ITA O’BRIEN on Intimate Storytelling - Highlights 12:52

4M ago12:52

12:52

"For years, people spoke about how awkward or embarrassing it was to perform the intimate content. And what they're speaking about is feeling horrible. If something's awkward, that squirm, that ring in the body, it feels embarrassing. That's actually an emotion that is not professional. That is not allowing the actor to stay feeling listened to, he…

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Intimacy Coordinator ITA O’BRIEN on Crafting Safe Spaces in Theatre, Film & Television 52:46

4M ago52:46

52:46

How can intimate scenes be brought to the screen in ways that respect the emotional well-being and privacy of the artists themselves? How do we make sure that we can create a story about abuse without anyone being abused in the process? Ita O’Brien is the UK’s leading Intimacy Coordinator, founder of Intimacy on Set (and author of the Intimacy On S…

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Episode 24: Spotlight on the Gap Year 1:08:09

4M ago1:08:09

1:08:09

For over a generation, many American Jewish young adults have spent a year between high school and college in Israel—the “gap year.” How does the gap year contribute to North American Jewish education? How does it complicate that work? What does it mean for young adults to go from “here" to “there" to participate in this important educational exper…

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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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The Art of Bringing Stories to Life - Highlights - LISA EDELSTEIN 14:22

4M ago14:22

14:22

"When I did my show Positive Me, we were in the middle of a horrible crisis. The AIDS crisis was very real to me and my friends and not real to the people that I knew from New Jersey. They thought it was government hype. They didn't believe in it. And so I couldn't even fathom that. And I had taken a class with Elizabeth Swados about writing satire…

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LISA EDELSTEIN - From Acting to Directing, Writing & Visual Art 49:36

4M ago49:36

49:36

How can the arts help us examine and engage with social issues? How do our families shape our views, memories, and experience of the world? From her role as Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the hit Fox series House, to her starring role as Abby McCarthy in Bravo's first scripted series Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce, Lisa Edelstein's range of roles are as diverse …

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What is the lure of immersive theatre experiences & intense communities? - TARA ISABELLA BURTON 9:20

5M ago9:20

9:20

"I think that we always try to find ways of defining ourselves against culture, archetypes, and narratives. And one of the things that interests me most is the process of trying to figure out what story we're in, to try to figure out who we are relative to stories. I don't think we are reducible to archetypes exactly, but I think that constant tryi…

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Spirituality & Selfhood: TARA ISABELLA BURTON - Author of Here in Avalon, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World 46:18

5M ago46:18

46:18

What are we willing to give up to find meaning, connection, and a sense of belonging? What happens if we don't self-promote, self-create, and self-brand on social media? Will we find the right partner? Will we get into the right college? Or find the best job? Tara Isabella Burton is the author of the novels Social Creature, The World Cannot Give, a…

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Episode 23: Why Young Jews Love Yiddish | Dr. Sandra Fox 28:39

5M ago28:39

28:39

Over the last two decades, talk of Yiddish as an alternate path of engaging with Jewishness comes up in the Jewish press almost cyclically — a journalistic evergreen. In this session, historian and Yiddish podcaster Sandra Fox explains how Yiddish became culturally significant, why young people are flocking to learn Yiddish in larger numbers than e…

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How does knowing a second language increase your creativity & humanity? - Highlights - ALAN POUL 12:55

5M ago12:55

12:55

"I was always a film and theater kid. I just was completely starstruck and only wanted to have some kind of contact with showbiz. I didn't really understand in what creative shape that would take. It was when I was trying to work in theater. Stephen Sondheim was a close friend and advisor for the period. I was trying to work in theater, and he real…

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ALAN POUL - Emmy & Golden Globe-winning Producer/Director - Tokyo Vice - Six Feet Under - Tales of the City - My So-Called Life 1:09:55

5M ago1:09:55

1:09:55

What does learning another language and living in another culture do for your humanity and creative process? Alan Poul is an Emmy, Golden Globe, DGA, and Peabody Award-winning producer and director of film and television. He is Executive Producer and Director on the Max Original drama series Tokyo Vice, written by Tony Award-winning playwright J.T.…

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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 22: How Israeli-Americans Think About Their Kids’ Hebrew Learning | Hannah Kober 27:55

5M ago27:55

27:55

Like other immigrants, many Israeli expatriates find themselves asking how they can maintain their culture on American soil. But what happens when their children learn their heritage language in American educational settings? In this session, Hannah Kober will discusses the surprising finding from her recent research that the long-held narrative ab…

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

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Episode 27: Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field | Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold 1:04:59

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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 26: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Jewish Education 1:10:23

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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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Episode 25: Visualizing Jewish Texts and Practices through the Graphic Novel | Dr. Talia Hurwich 28:08

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Do good deeds offset bad deeds? How do our families shape who we become?- Highlights - DAN FUTTERMAN & ADAM RAPP 11:07

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The Outsiders Musical & American Rust w/ ADAM RAPP & DAN FUTTERMAN - Award-winning Writers 39:11

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Intimacy Coordinator & Movement Director ITA O’BRIEN on Intimate Storytelling - Highlights 12:52

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Intimacy Coordinator ITA O’BRIEN on Crafting Safe Spaces in Theatre, Film & Television 52:46

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Episode 24: Spotlight on the Gap Year 1:08:09

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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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The Art of Bringing Stories to Life - Highlights - LISA EDELSTEIN 14:22

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LISA EDELSTEIN - From Acting to Directing, Writing & Visual Art 49:36

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What is the lure of immersive theatre experiences & intense communities? - TARA ISABELLA BURTON 9:20

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Spirituality & Selfhood: TARA ISABELLA BURTON - Author of Here in Avalon, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World 46:18

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Episode 23: Why Young Jews Love Yiddish | Dr. Sandra Fox 28:39

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How does knowing a second language increase your creativity & humanity? - Highlights - ALAN POUL 12:55

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ALAN POUL - Emmy & Golden Globe-winning Producer/Director - Tokyo Vice - Six Feet Under - Tales of the City - My So-Called Life 1:09:55

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Episode 0365: Across So Many Seas 20:06

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Episode 22: How Israeli-Americans Think About Their Kids’ Hebrew Learning | Hannah Kober 27:55

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

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