The Yiddish Book Center’s Podcast
The Yiddish Book Center’s podcast includes conversations with Jewish culture makers, plus news and stories related to Yiddish literature, language, and culture.
10 December 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0360: Shir Hashirim (The Song of Songs): A Yiddish Operetta
30 November 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0359: Jewish Anarchist Histories Reclaimed
21 November 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0358: Kristen Morgenstern’s Zine: Irena Klepfisz: The Life of the Fighter
14 November 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0357: Amid Falling Walls: A Groundbreaking Musical
2 November 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0356: Faith Jones on Translating Shira Gorshman
21 September 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0355: David Mazower on Yiddish: A Global Culture
14 June 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0354: Women on the Yiddish Stage
7 June 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0353: The Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project
16 May 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0352: A Life in Yiddish Translation
6 May 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0351: Four Days of Concerts: Yidstock 2023
30 April 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0350: Writing the Story of Franya Winter
30 March 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0349: Dear Mr. Dickens: The Story Behind the Letter
18 March 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0348: Caraid O’Brien on Sholem Asch’s Underworld Trilogy
22 February 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0347: Di Shvester—The Sisters: Eleanor Reissa and Cilla Owens
2 February 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0346: IIrena Klepfisz on Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems
17 January 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0345: Max Weinreich on the Great Jewish Books Club
11 January 2023, 12:00 am
Episode 0344: And what about the taste? with Sima Beeri
22 December 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0343: Aaron Bendich on the Launch of Off Beet
30 November 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0342: The Inaugural New York Jewish Book Festival
16 November 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0341: The Remarkable Backstory of Chana Blankshteyn’s Fear and Other Stories
15 November 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0340: Women in Yiddish
12 November 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0339: A Trilingual (Yiddish, Ukrainian, English) Volume of Two Works of Children’s Poetry
1 November 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0338: Debra Olin’s Mixed Media Considers An-sky’s Questionnaire
24 October 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0337: Josh Lambert on Jews and Publishing
4 October 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0336: Working 9 to 5: A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie
25 September 2022, 12:00 am
Episode: 0335: The Mystery of the Library of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin
19 September 2022, 12:00 am
Episode: 0334: Girl with Two Landscapes: The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab
17 August 2022, 12:00 am
Episode: 0333: How the Soviet Jew Was Made
10 August 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0332: Asaf Galay on The Adventures of Saul Bellow
3 August 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0331: Jake Krakovsky, Yiddish Puppeteer
17 July 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0330: Irving Massey Reflects On His Mother Ida Maze
13 June 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0329: Photographer Chuck Fishman: A Lens on Jewish Poland
18 May 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0328: Yermiyahu Ahron Taub on Translating Ida Maze’s Dineh
5 May 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0327: Meet Misha: Host of Bard College’s Yiddish Radio Program
19 April 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0326: What’s on Film Critic Kenneth Turan’s List?
8 April 2022, 12:00 am
Episode 0325: The Corset Maker by Annette Libeskind Berkovits
27 March 2022, 12:00 am
Episode: 0324 How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
6 March 2022, 12:00 am
Episode: 0323: Ripped Away
28 February 2022, 12:00 am
Episode: 0322: Farbindungen: The Roots of Yiddish Networking
10 February 2022, 12:00 am
Episosde: 0321: Musterverk fun der yidisher literatur (Masterworks of Yiddish Literature)
2 February 2022, 12:00 am
Episode: 0320: The Golden Peacock: The Voice of the Yiddish Writer
25 January 2022, 12:00 am
Episode: 0319: Translating Isaac Babel’s Red Calvary
20 January 2022, 12:00 am
Episdode: 0318: American Comics: A History with Jeremy Dauber
12 January 2022, 12:00 am
Episode: 0317: Italian Opera for the Yiddish-Speaking Masses in Early 20th-Century America
6 January 2022, 12:00 am
Episode: 0316: DI FROYEN (THE WOMEN) ON STAGE
16 December 2021, 12:00 am
Episode: 0315 Justin Cammy on Avrom Sutzkever’s From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg
1 December 2021, 12:00 am
Episode: 0314: Frank London on “Hanukkah with the Klezmatics”
18 November 2021, 12:00 am
Episode: 0313: Abraham Karpinowitz’s Vilna My Vilna: A Staged Reading in Translation
10 November 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0312: When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
4 November 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0311: Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art
28 October 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0310: The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language
20 October 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0309: Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story
13 October 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0308: Yiddish TikTok Sensation Cameron Bernstein
6 October 2021, 12:00 am
Episdoe 0307: Samuel Isban’s “Illegal” Jews Part the Seas
14 September 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0306: Rachelle Grossman on Yiddish Print Culture and Rare Yiddish Books
18 August 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0305: Sholom Aleichem’s Rediscovered Novel
1 August 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0304: What's on at KlezKanada 2021
28 July 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0303: Yiddish in Nature: An Anthology of Newly Translated Work
14 July 2021, 12:00 am
Ep0302: Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction
8 July 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0301: Seth Rogovoy Chats about Yidstock ‘21
29 June 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0300: Through the Hat and Tales from the Golden Medina
16 May 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0299: Javier Sinay on Argentinian Journalist Pinie Katz and the Murders of Moises Ville
29 April 2021, 12:00 am
Aaron Bendich Podcast 4 30 21
22 April 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0297: Sholem Asch’s "The Dead Man"’s English-Language Premiere
14 April 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0296: Yiddish Women Playwrights Festival
7 April 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0295: Judy Batalion and the Untold Story of Jewish Women Resistance Fighters
1 April 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0294: Eleanor Reissa in Conversation
19 March 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0293: A Wide-Ranging Conversation with Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel
13 March 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0292: The Third Seder Goes Virtual
6 March 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0291: African American Jewish Cantor Thomas LaRue Jones
24 February 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0290: A Recent Find Sheds Light on the Work of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
18 February 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0289: Remember the Triangle Fire
4 February 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0288: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in Conversation
29 January 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0287: "9to5: The Story of a Movement"
21 January 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0286: Hankus Netsky: 40 Years in Yiddishland
12 January 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0285: "Teaching Jewish American Literature"
7 January 2021, 12:00 am
Episode 0284: "Yiddish in Israel: A History"
17 December 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0283: Jews in Space
10 December 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0282: "The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema"
1 December 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0281: Yiddish Actor and Yiddishist Shane Baker
24 November 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0280: "The Drowning Shore": A Cantata in Yiddish and Scottish
13 November 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0279: Enhanced Access to Hundreds of Oral Histories
6 November 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0278: New in Translation: "Sutzkever Essential Prose"
29 October 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0277: Recommended Reads from the Jewish Book Council
23 October 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0276: Yiddish Singer and Social Activist Isabel Frey
16 October 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0275: Klara Klebanova's Memoir: Reflections of a Russian Revolutionary
9 October 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0274: "On the Roof: A Look Inside Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish"
1 October 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0273: "Honey on the Page"
25 September 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0272: Twentieth-Century Yiddish Primers and Workbooks for Children
11 September 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0271: Glasgow's Yiddish Pink Peacock Café
13 August 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0270: Rachmil Bryks' Holocaust Memoir Triptych
6 August 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0269: "A Revolution in Yiddish-Language Pedagogy": Introducing The New Yiddish Textbook
31 July 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0268: KlezKanada at Twenty-Five
24 July 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0267: Ilan Stavans's "The Seventh Heaven"
17 July 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0266: Jack Berger's Work Translating Yizkor Books
9 July 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0265: On Rosenfeld and "Rivals": Rachel Mines Talks Translation
2 July 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0264: Mendel Osherowitch's Account of Soviet Ukraine in 1932
26 June 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0263: Dylan, "Babylon Berlin," and Camus: Seth Rogovoy's Recommendations
12 June 2020, 12:00 am
Episode 0262: Yiddish Theater Lab: Reviving the Forgotten Works of the Yiddish Theater
4 June 2020, 12:00 am