Macaroni and cheese flowcharts and schnitzel costume patterns are just two of the many things you can find in Molly Yeh’s (Tent: Food NYC ’14) new cookbook “Molly on the Range.” Hear how she brings together the many aspects of her identity into reimagined Jewish recipes that are guaranteed to make your holiday cooking special.

Episode 0125

November 21, 2016

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Masschusetts

What makes photography a particularly Jewish craft? That question fueled renowned photographer Penny Wolin’s eight-year project to capture the essence of American Jewish photographers, which eventually led to her newest book, Descendants of Light: American Photographers of Jewish Ancestry.

Episode 0124

November 14, 2016

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

In the Yiddish Book Center’s new Great Jewish Books Book Club, which launches in January, club members will explore great works of modern Jewish literature with like-minded readers from around the world. Josh Lambert, the Center’s academic director, talks about the details of the club and how it came to be, and gives you a sneak peek of the first title that book club members will receive.

Episode 0123

November 7, 2016

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Episode 0122: Finding Babel by Yiddish Book Center

In the late nineteenth century, Jews celebrated the New Year by sending each other illustrated postcards with hopes and wishes for the upcoming year. Hannah Pressman, affiliate faculty and communications director for the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, shares the unique history of these cards, the companies that produced them, and the nostalgia that they inspire.

Episode 0121

October 19, 2016

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Marjorie Ingall discusses her new book, Mamaleh Knows Best: What Jewish Mothers Do to Raise Successful, Creative, Empathetic, Independent Children, which turns the negative stereotype of the Jewish mother on its head to show the many positives of a Jewish style of parenting. Ingall is a columnist for Tablet and a contributor to the New York Times Book Review.

Episode 0120

October 6, 2016

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Henry Sapoznik speaks about his recent project, Attractive Hebrews: The Thomas Lambert Yiddish Recordings, 1901-1905. Some of the earliest known Yiddish recordings, they document the difficulties that many Jews faced in determining their place in America. Sapoznik, the director of the Mayrent Institute at the University of Wisconsin Madison and a Peabody Award winner, played a major role in the klezmer revival.

Episode 0119

September 26, 2016

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

As Josh Kogan-Zajdman wrapped up his seventh and final week in the 2016 Steiner Summer Yiddish Program, he talked about growing up with Yiddish-speaking grandparents in Mexico, who inspired his interest in the language and culture, and about his surprising personal connection to the Yiddish Book Center’s recent acquisition of books from a school in Mexico.

Episode 0118

September 13, 2016

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Boxing historian Mike Silver, author of "Stars in the Ring: Jewish Champions in the Golden Age of Boxing: A Photographic History," talks about the all-but-forgotten history of Jewish boxers from the 1890s to the 1950s. Silver reminds us that Jewish boxers and entrepreneurs dominated the sport in the 1920s and '30s, and he discusses the ways in which boxing helped Jews assimilate to life in the United States.

Episode 0117

July 28, 2016

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Hankus Netsky tells us about his recent book, "Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia," a portrait of the folk music and traditions of the city’s Jewish community. A musical ethnographer and teacher, Netsky is a founder of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, which will play at Yidstock ’16.

Episode 0116

June 30, 2016

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts