We visit with Myra Melamed, daughter of Yiddish singer Herschel Melamed, to learn about the recently produced CD, "Herschel Melamed: 18 Songs."

Episode 0084

July 8, 2014

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Curator Laura Kruger discusses the work of artist Nathan Hilu. Kruger is the curator of "Nathan Hilu's Journal: Word, Image, Memory" which is currently on exhibit in the Yiddish Book Center's Brechner Gallery. Hilu's work draws on biblical stories and his Lower East Side surroundings.

Episode 0083

June 10, 2014

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

We visit with Anita Garlick, a ninety-year old 'sit-down' Jewish comedian who came to comedy late in life. Anita's comedy draws from her Jewish roots and her early exposure to the Borscht Belt comedians.

Episode 0082

June 2, 2014

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

We visit with translator Faith Jones to learn about the recently published "The Acrobat: the Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin." Jones, who collaborated on the translation of Dropkin's (1887-1956) experimental poetry, shares a bit about the poet and reads a few verses.

Episode 0081

May 14, 2014

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

We visit with author Alice Hoffman to talk about her latest work, "The Museum of Extraordinary Things." During our visit we learn about Hoffman's grandfather, a Yiddish writer whose work she found on the Yiddish Book Center's Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library.

Episode 0080

April 27, 2014

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

The 'Grandma' behind Grandma's Chicken Soup tells us how she launched a mail-order chicken soup business. From her kitchen to your table (matzoh balls included.)

Try a bowl, visit www.grandmaschickensoup.com.

Episode 0079

April 11, 2014

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

In a conversation with Randy Settenbrino, owner of the Blue Moon Hotel in New York, we learn how he transformed a 19th-century Lower East Side tenement into a 21st-century hotel. Settenbrino shares the history of the building, once inhabited by immigrants and factory workers, and reminisces about the surrounding neighborhood.

Episode 0078

March 5, 2014

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Aaron Lansky visits with George Ellenbogen, author of the recently published memoir "A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of a Neighbourhood." Ellenbogen, who grew up in the Jewish district of Montreal, writes about the concept of neighbourhood and community and provides us with a window into the immigrant neighbourhood of his youth.

Episode 0077

February 26, 2014

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

In a visit with author Jeffrey Veidlinger we learn how his recently published book, "In the Shadow of the Shtetl," tells the story of traditional small-town Jewish life in the years between 1917 and 1948. The stories, collected by the "AHEYM" oral history project at Indiana University, are drawn from interviews with over 100 Yiddish speakers.

Episode 0076

February 6, 2014

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Aaron Lansky visits with Sebastian Schulman to learn what is new in the field of Yiddish translation - from the recent launch of the Center's groundbreaking translation website tatysh.org to the Center's Yiddish Translation Fellowship, new venues for publication, and more. Creating new opportunities to mentor and train Yiddish translators, employing new technologies to "crowd-source" Yiddish translation, and publication of new translations are a few examples of the Yiddish Book Center's plans to advance translation in the 21st Century.

Episode 0075

January 21, 2014

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts