The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast

The Yiddish Book Center's podcast includes conversations with Jewish culture makers, plus news and stories related to Yiddish literature, language, and culture.

The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Yiddish Book Center, with 412 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Yiddish Book Center hosts The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast, a arts show with 412 episodes published.

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  Episode 413: Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal

  Aug 12, 202629 min

  Author Matthew Goodman talks about his latest book, Paris Undercover, which tells the story of two women’s remarkable courage. Etta Shiber and Kate Bonnefous are the unlikeliest of heroines: two seemingly ordinary women, an American widow and an English divorcée, living quietly together in Paris. Yet during the Nazi occupation, these two friends find themselves unexpectedly plunged into the whirlwind of history. In researching this story, Matthew Goodman uncovered military records and personal testimonies that reveal, for the first time, the shocking truth behind Etta’s memoir and the unexpected, far-reaching consequences of its publication. More than just a story of two women’s remarkable courage, Paris Undercover is a vivid, gripping account of deceit, betrayal, and personal redemption. Episode 413 Yiddish Book Center August 16, 2026 Amherst, MA

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  Episode 412: Recapping a Year of Yiddish Literature, Language, and Cultural Work

  Jul 29, 202630 min

  Yiddish Book Center fellows Noah Bromberg, Joshua (Yoshke) Horowitz, and Tyler Kliem visited with The Shmooze to talk about their fellowship work. In conversation we spoke about the range of their work and their many contributions in the areas of bibliography, exhibitions, and language learning, as well as their work with the Center’s Yiddish type collection and printing press. Episode 412 July 30, 2026 Amherst, MA

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  Episode 411: The Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia

  Jun 11, 202619 min

  Author Julie Brill joined "The Shmooze" to speak about her recently released "Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia". As a child, Julie held two conflicting beliefs. She knew Germans had murdered her Jewish grandfather in occupied Yugoslavia, yet she somehow believed the Holocaust had never come to his hometown of Belgrade. The family anecdotes her father passed down—a blend of his early memories and what his mother told him—didn’t match what Julie had heard about Germany, Poland, and Anne Frank in Holland during World War II. Episode 411 June 12, 2026 Amherst, MA

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  Episode 410: Boom and Chains: A Yiddish Novel in Translation

  Apr 29, 202623 min

  Adi Mahalel visited with "The Shmooze" to speak about his translation of Hanan Ayalti’s "Boom and Chains". The novel provides a rare glimpse of the Jewish political left before the creation of the State of Israel and vividly illustrates the physical and mental toll of making a life in Mandatory Palestine. In conversation we discuss how author Hanan Ayalti’s own journey resembles that of Zalmen, the novel’s main character, and reflects his disillusionment with early Labor Zionism. Episode 410 April 30, 2026 Amherst, MA

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  Episode 409: Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries

  Apr 21, 202622 min

  This week on The Shmooze we visit with Nicholas Lemann. A veteran New Yorker correspondent, Lemann grew up in New Orleans, the son of German Jews in a world of gilded privilege. Yet in contrast to his parents’ generation, which always sought to downplay their religious background, Lemann was intrigued by his roots, thinking he wanted to be like Jack Burden, the ever-curious reporter in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. In conversation he talks about his recently released book, Returning, which tells both a personal family history and reveals much about Jewish life in the twenty-first century. Episode 409 April 22, 2026 Amherst, MA

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