Yiddish Book Club
We retired this podcast, because we couldn't parse it for 10 consecutive times.
Three Yiddish translators and one podcast producer read works of Yiddish literature and then share impressions and insights. The idea is for you to read these stories too and then to participate in the discussion. We are reading Yiddish literature that is available in English translation, and since some of these English versions are terrible, the Yiddish experts are here to tell the rest of us what we are missing out on.
- Website
- https://yiddishbookclub.com
- Description
- We read Yiddish Literature and English Translation. Join the club.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2023-06-09 12:21
- last episode published
- 2018-05-11 04:19
- publication frequency
- 165.87 days
- Contributors
- Michael Wex, Faith Jones, Shane Baker, Eric Klein
- Author
- Explicit
- true
- Number of Episodes
- 6
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality Judaism Literature History Arts
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2018-05-11 | Direct Download the Podcast Episode Memoirs by pre-19th century women are exceedingly rare. This memoir by a late 17th to early18th-century Jewish business woman is completely unique. Gluckel’s financial dealings, her piety and personal conduct, and th... |
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| 2017-08-06 | Chaim Grade — My Quarrel With Hersh Rasseyner In Chaim Grade’s classic story, two Holocaust survivors meet in post-war Paris: one has cast aside God, while the other has become only more fanatical. Is there any common ground, or can one convince the ot... |
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| 2017-03-09 | Yiddish Book Club audio Show notes: https://yiddishstage.org/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-god-of-vengeance https://yiddishstage.org/brothel-intrigue-with-a-modern-twist-got-fun-nekome-at-the-new-yiddish-rep https://yiddishstage.org/an-open-letter... |
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| 2017-02-08 | Shane Baker is playing the central character, Yankl on stage in the Yiddish language play “God of Vengeance,” originally written by Sholem Asch in 1907. In the next episode of the Yiddish Book Club podcast we are going to talk about the text of the pla... |
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| 2016-02-01 | Part two of our discussion of I.B. Singer’s short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy.” Please be sure to listen to part one unless you are a rebel who likes doing things backwards, who am I to tell you how to listen to a podcast if you don’t care about under... |
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| 2016-02-01 | We read I.B. Singer’s short story about a Jewish girl who dressed as a boy, because she wanted to study. This is part one of a two hour discussion. download the audio Show Notes: Proof that Singer hated the movie. |
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