Aaron Lansky visits with Christa Whitney, the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project director, to talk about her recent fieldwork in Poland and her new project to interview the children of Yiddish writers.

Episode 0065

June 11, 2013

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

We visit with scholar Sasha Senderovich to learn about "The Zelmenyaners," one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century, now in a new English translation by Hillel Halkin. The translation, published by the New Yiddish Library, is a collaboration between Yale University Press and the Yiddish Book Center.

Episode 0064

June 4, 2013

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

We visit with author, music critic, and Yidstock program director Seth Rogovoy to learn about Yidstock 2013 - from the opening concert with the Klezmer Conservatory Band to the Yidstock All-stars closing concert, as well as the workshop and talks that will take place at Yidstock 2013 (July 18-21 at the Yiddish Book Center).

For more information and to purchase tickets http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yidstock

Episode 0063

May 21, 2013

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

We visit with artist Liana Finck to learn about her illustration exhibit "A Bintel Brief." On display at the Yiddish Book Center through October, 2013, "A Bintel Brief" is a graphic novel based on letters to the Forverts newspaper's advice column.

Episode 0062

May 7, 2013

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Aaron Lansky visits with Sebastian Schulman, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Yiddish Translation Fellowship Program, to learn about the launch of the Center's Yiddish Translation Fellowship, development of the Center's Yiddish translation website, new translations, e-publishing of Yiddish translation, and so much more.

Episode 0061

April 30, 2013

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

In a conversation with author, scholar, and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar, Sebastian Schulman learns about Behar's Jewish Cuban roots, her family, and her immigration to New York. We also learn about an upcoming trip to Cuba that she will lead, as well as her recently published book "Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys."

Episode 0060

April 23, 2013

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Aaron Lansky visits with the Yiddish Book Center's newly announced Translation Fellows to learn about their interest in Yiddish and their translation projects.

Episode 0059

April 5, 2013

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Jeffrey Yoskowitz, one of the founders of The Gefilteria, speaks with us about their new take on gefilte fish, beet kvass cocktails, Passover, and Jewish food.

Episode 0058

March 19, 2013

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Aaron Lansky visits with Professor Efrat Gal- Ed to discuss the work of researching and writing a biography on Yiddish writer Itzik Manger.

Episode 0057

March 12, 2013

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Ben Katchor's "Hand-Drying in America" and Mark Russ Federman's "Russ & Daughters," a cookbook memoir, are the new releases recommended by Emma Morgenstern, Director of the Jewish Book Council Network.

Episode 0056

March 5, 2013

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts