A month into their Fellowship, Jessica Parker and Allison Posner sit down to answer our questions about their work and their interest and passion for Yiddish language and culture.

Episode 0045

October 30, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Aaron Lansky visits with Tent's program director, Josh Lambert, to discuss the Yiddish Book Center's new program. Tent will offer immersive, intense, free, week-long workshops for Jewish twentysomethings.

http://www.tentsite.org/

Episode 0044

October 23, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Author, culture commentator, and scholar Ilan Stavans speaks with Josh Lambert about a program originally planned for November 2012. Yiddish con Salsa, a weekend program at the Yiddish Book Center has been scheduled for April 19-21, 2013.

For more information and to register, visit www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yiddish-con-salsa.

Episode 0043

September 25, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

This summer Christa Whitney took the Wexler Oral History Project out of the Yiddish Book Center's studio and into the field. Whitney tells us about the interviews she conducted in cities from Baltimore to Vilnius, and why she loves the opportunity to ask the important questions.

Episode 0042

September 11, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

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