Sephardic Studies professor and author Sarah Abrevaya Stein talks about editing the translation of a Ladino memoir into English and how her internship at the Yiddish Book Center shaped her understanding of Jewish languages.

Episode 0041

September 4, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Shtetl Montreal founder Tamara Kramer discusses her online magazine and radio show and tells us how both push the envelope when it comes to culture, identity, and Jewish life.

Visit Shetl Montreal or listen to "Shtetl on the Shortwave" here: www.shtetlmontreal.com.

Episode 0040

August 28, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch reflects on his early introduction to Jewish literature, and shares reading and writing advice he'll offer to students at the Yiddish Book Center’s Great Jewish Books Summer Program.

To find out more about the Great Jewish Books Summer Program for high school students at the Yiddish Book Center, visit www.yiddishbookcenter.org/great-jewish-books.

Episode 0039

August 21, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

In a visit with Aaron Lansky we learn about new Yiddish-related technology, and get a recap of Yiddish Book Center events, from the Great Jewish Books Summer Program to Yidstock, an alumni reunion, and much more.

Episode 0038

August 14, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Ellen Perecman, founder of the New Worlds Theatre Project, discusses the process of choosing, translating, and producing Yiddish plays for an English-speaking audience. Perecman and her company will be in residence at the Yiddish Book Center this week as they begin working on Dovid Pinski’s "Professor Brenner."

Episode 0037

August 7, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Steiner Summer Yiddish Program students Dory Fox and Jamie Nadel reflect on how the program provided them with a new understanding of Jewish culture.

Episode 0036

August 1, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Los Angeles Times and NPR film critic Kenneth Turan talks with us about "Lost Embrace" (Argentina's 2004 Academy Award entry/Best Foreign Film), the eccentric and sweet story of a young man working at a mall in the Jewish neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

Episode 0035

July 25, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Noah Gardenswartz is a stand-up comedian performing three shows of “global Jewish comedy” on the East Coast next week. Listen in as he talks about the common humor Jewish communities share and how he’s trying to break out of the Jewish comedy format.

Episode 0034

July 13, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Peter Manseau won the National Jewish Book Award for "Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter," a semi-autobiographical and semi-historical novel about Yiddish literature and preservation. In this conversation with Josh Lambert, Manseau reflects on his time as an intern at the Yiddish Book Center and the obsession with Yiddish he can't seem to shake.

Episode 0033

July 10, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

The Lemon Bucket Orkestra went viral this spring with a video of an impromptu klezmer performance on a delayed flight from Toronto to Frankfurt. Emma Morgenstern catches up with Mark Marczyk, the band's fiddler, about their captive audience and other wacky venues the band has graced with song.

Episode 0032

July 3, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, MA