Seth Rogovoy talks with Yiddish vocalist Eleanor Reissa about her upcoming performance at Yidstock. Reissa will be singing with Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars at Yidstock on Sunday, July 15th, 2012.

Episode 0025

June 5, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Yidstock will bring some of the top names in klezmer to the stage at the Yiddish Book Center. Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock's program organizer, explains how the bands, which include the Klezmatics and Socalled, represent the many incarnations of klezmer.

Episode 0024

May 30, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Jewish educator Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich talks with Aaron Lansky about her work documenting every Yiddish school in North America. These schools, whose reach and influence were greater than Freidenreich imagined, are chronicled in her book, "Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910-1960."

Episode 0023

May 22, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

When asked what's new at the Yiddish Book Center, Aaron Lansky had plenty to report: the opening of a new interactive exhibit, a recap of the recent Chaim Grade weekend program, new initiatives to jumpstart Yiddish translation, arriving students, and, believe it or not, there's more.

Episode 0022

May 16, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Two years and four thousand pounds of Cor-Ten steel in the making, Simon Kogan's sculpture "Yiddish" has been installed on the grounds at the Yiddish Book Center. Kogan and Lee Hutt, the head of the Center's sculpture committee, talk with Aaron Lansky about what the sculpture represents and the massive effort - artistic and physical - of creating it.

Episode 0021

May 9, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Fellow Josh Price reads an excerpt from Chaim Grade's poem "Ikh veyn af aykh mit ale oysyes fun dem alef-beys" ("I weep for you with all the letters of the alphabet") and discusses the context of this elegy for the Soviet Yiddish writers executed under Stalin's regime.

Episode 0020

April 24, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Ilan Stavans sits down with Josh Lambert to answer questions about the concept behind his documentary-style fotonovela, Once@9:53am, a fictional meditation of the two hours before the 1994 terrorist attack on the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Once@9:53am, a collaboration between Ilan Stavans and photographer Marcelo Brodsky, is on exhibit at the Yiddish Book Center through October 2012.

Episode 0019

April 18, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Aaron Lansky visits with Hankus Netsky, curator of the Lee and Alfred Hutt Discovery Gallery, to learn about the people, stories, artifacts, and interviews that have shaped this new interactive exhibit. The Gallery will open on April 29th, 2012 - the opening is one of the many scheduled events that will take place during the Center's 2012 Community Open House.

Episode 0018

April 11, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Aaron Lansky and designer Alex Isley (of Alexander Isley Inc.) share the story of how and why the Yiddish Book Center's new logo evolved to include a tsigele - a little goat.

Episode 0016

April 3, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts

Rick Brown and his team at Handshouse Studio are constructing an 85 percent scale model of a wooden synagogue inside the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Aaron Lansky visits with Rick to learn about the project and the history of these magnificent structures.

Episode 0017

April 3, 2012

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts