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Episodes
- Bel Canto
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:38:37 GMT
Composer Yotam Haber finds inspiration in a dusty Roman archive. - Birds of a Feather
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:10:42 GMT
A historian explores the role of Jews in the once-booming ostrich feather business. - High Fidelity
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:58:50 GMT
Josh Kun finds forgotten treasures in old, discarded LPs - Rifts and Rows
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:21:39 GMT
A London walking tour outlines Britain's great Jewish controversies. - Dancing in the Street
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:38:52 GMT
Celebrating Jerusalem hip hop with Coolooloosh. - Mad Mensches
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:18:34 GMT
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner dishes on the show's Jewish characters. - Mediterranean Melodies
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:21:27 GMT
La Mar Enfortuna reinterprets the music of the Sephardic diaspora. - Politics of the Everyday
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:13:25 GMT
Novelist Yael Hedaya explores the daily struggles of modern Israelis. - Open the Doors
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:36:49 GMT
A new school in Germany promises cantors for Europe. - Beware the Evil Eye
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:50:34 GMT
Hadara Graubart's family blurs the line between superstition and religion. - Paradise Lost
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:47:36 GMT
Ariel Sabar searches for the Edenic past his father left behind in Kurdistan. - Land of Plenty
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:49:34 GMT
Dining out in Israel with food aficionado Janna Gur. - Talk of the Nation
Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:07:23 GMT
Ilan Stavans voyages to find a mother tongue - You Are What You Wear
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:35:19 GMT
Linda Grant's new novel takes on identity, morality and fashion. - In the Land of Cars and Football
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:34:30 GMT
Danit Brown reflects on life as an Israeli immigrant in Michigan - With a Capital “J”
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:40:41 GMT
A conversation with theater critic Alisa Solomon on West Side Story's Jewish roots. - The Third Way
Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:42:20 GMT
Sadia Shepard grew up part Protestant, part Muslim. Then she found out about her grandmother. - Funny Girls
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:11:06 GMT
Cory Kahaney talks about Jewish female stand-up comedians from the 1950s and 60s, like Totie Fields and Jean Carroll, who paved the way for her and her peers. - Close-Up
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:48:54 GMT
Filmmaker Vanessa Engle on "Jews," her three-part documentary for the BBC. - The Ha-Ha
Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:13:36 GMT
Jim Holt on the history of jokes - including those collected and interpreted by Sigmund Freud, and by his self-appointed disciple, Gershon Legman. - No Place Like Home
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:46:52 GMT
Tania Grossinger on growing up at the family resort hotel. - Sonic Youth
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:17:34 GMT
A conversation with punk-rockabilly klezmer Israeli musician Noam Inbar. - Within Four Walls
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:05:22 GMT
Joel Rose takes us to an all-but-forgotten synagogue in a defunct prison. - Born Free
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:55:54 GMT
Filmmaker Ran Tal on his documentary about family life in the early days of the kibbutz. - Pioneer Days
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:31:00 GMT
A conversation with Joanna Hershon about her new Wild West novel, "The German Bride." - Partners in Crime
Mon, 19 May 2008 12:24:14 GMT
David Benioff on his new novel, "City of Thieves." - Raising the Dead
Mon, 12 May 2008 14:00:57 GMT
Aleksandar Hemon talks about his latest novel, The Lazarus Project. - Word Choice
Mon, 05 May 2008 11:10:12 GMT
How Hebrew was (and continues to be) transformed into a modern language. - Radical Riff
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:55:35 GMT
How comedians of the '60s and '70s revolutionized stand-up. - In the Image
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:10:01 GMT
A literarybut none-too-sadKeith Gessen talks about his new novel. - Before the Exodus
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:17:47 GMT
A tour of Streit's matzo factory, while it's still in the neighborhood. - The Things We Carry
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:53:11 GMT
A conversation with journalist Masha Gessen about her new book, Blood Matters, in which she explores the implications of genetic testing and inherited disease. - Christmas in July
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:42:11 GMT
A summer camp story from Sloane Crosley. - Ties That Bind
Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:42:02 GMT
A scholar and priest traces the roots of religious violence to Abraham. - Passion Songs
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:32:03 GMT
Yasmin Levy brings her own fire to traditional Ladino music. - Damascus Minyan
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:27:11 GMT
Eric Umansky encounters merchants, widows, and secret police at a Syrian synagogue - Death of a Pothead
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:06:06 GMT
Elisa Albert talks about her first novela coming-of-death tragicomedy. - Goat Days
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:23:52 GMT
One man's dispatches from the edge of the New Jewish Food Movement - Crossing Melodies
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:52:35 GMT
Gregorian chant meets Judeo-Iraqi songs of prayer in Miami - Temple Seeker
Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:40:53 GMT
Thomas Roma on his efforts to photograph all the synagogues in Brooklyn. - Chosen People
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:44:37 GMT
Reporter Eric Molinsky spends the weekend with one of the largest African American congregations in the United States. - Place of No Return
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:25:30 GMT
Ann Kirschner on two very different trips to Poland, the place her mother swore never to return to.
- The Solipsist
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:40:06 GMT
Novelist Howard Jacobson on his most recent novel, Kalooki Nights. - Digging for Decalogues
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:22:44 GMT
Murray Zimiles explores the links between Torah arks and carousel horses - From Decadence to Minimalism
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:04:57 GMT
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross takes us on a music tour of the 20th century. - Pioneer Tunes
Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:59:38 GMT
Alisa Solomon on "Milk and Honey," a 1961 Zionist Broadway musical comedy. - Ocho Kandelikas
Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:15:04 GMT
Sephardic folk singer Flory Jagoda traces her musical roots. - Sophie's Choice
Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:34:35 GMT
A young critic weighs in on three new novels - Back to Cuba
Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:01:16 GMT
Anthropologist Ruth Behar on her new book about Jewish Cuba. - Tevye on the West End
Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:39:55 GMT
British actor Henry Goodman on exploring the inner workings of a milkman-patriarch. - A Conversation with Norman Mailer
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:18:35 GMT
Conversation with the forever contrarian, but also quite sharp, Norman Mailer about his latest book, a fictional biography of Hitler's early years. - Hearing Voices
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:24:45 GMT
Daniel B. Smith explores the history of the phenomenonfrom the Bible to his father. - Call and Response
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:02:02 GMT
Dan Kaufman on his cabaret-punk band Barbez's Paul Celan tribute album. - Rise and Shine
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:14:14 GMT
What happens when 100 klezmer musicians from around the world gather for a photo op? - The Dude Abides
Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:29:37 GMT
A. J. Jacobs on what happens when an agnostic attempts to follow every rule in the Bible. - So Help Me Word
Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:10:10 GMT
Shalom Auslander on his new memoir, Foreskin's Lament. - The Etrog Man
Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:59:18 GMT
A Sukkot-appropriate audio postcard from a busy stall in Jerusalem's Machane Yehuda market. - Memory Trip
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:38:54 GMT
A guided tour of Brick Lane, in London's East End, with writer and artist Rachel Lichtenstein. - Sing a New Song
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:04:29 GMT
Robert Alter on his new translation of the Book of Psalms. - You Be Saved
Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:38:17 GMT
A story by Janice Erlbaum about an unusual visit to the local nail salon. - Stolen Gems
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:27:10 GMT
Dalia Sofer depicts one family's fearful and bittersweet days in revolutionary Iran - Bubbling Over
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Barry Joseph, "the Effervescent Jew," is the go-to guy for all manner of fact and apocrypha related to seltzer. - Sleepaway
Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:17:57 GMT
A conversation with Eric Simonoff, editor of Sleepaway, an anthology of essays and stories about summer camp. - Prayer Revival
Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:06:04 GMT
Re-discovering an 1855 collection of women's prayers written by Fanny Neuda in what was then Moravia. - A Sailor's Story
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:26:30 GMT
Rebecca Sheir reports on how Alaskan sailor Jack Johnson found himself aboard the ship Exodus in 1947, bound for Palestine. - Staged Rebellion
Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:53:13 GMT
Arts reporter Eric Molinsky looks at the work and legacy of Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin. - Peer Review
Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:39:51 GMT
A three-kid panel reviews three new works of young adult fiction. - Gertel's Last Stand
Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:30:49 GMT
Nextbook editor Joanna Smith Rakoff joins other loyal customers in bidding a fond farewell to Gertel's Bake Shop on the Lower East Side. - Rise and Tithe
Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:50:17 GMT
Foundation expert Joel Fleishman talks with host Sara Ivry about the history of Jewish charitable giving, from its origins in the Bible through the present. - Celebrity Cantor
Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:56:20 GMT
A conversation with Alex Halberstadt about the life and music of Joseph "Yossele" Rosenblatt. - Lady Intrepid
Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:15:39 GMT
An interview with 95-year-old foreign correspondent and photographer Ruth Gruber. - It's Not About You
Mon, 21 May 2007 11:32:33 GMT
The third in a three-part series chronicling Jesse Green's preparations (logistical, intellectual and emotional) for his son Erez's bar mitzvah. - Possessed
Mon, 14 May 2007 13:48:55 GMT
Eric Molinsky talks to playwrights and historians about the staying power of S. Ansky's "The Dybbuk" - Michael Chabon creates his own Yiddishland
Mon, 07 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT
Michael Chabon talks about his new detective novel set in an Alaskan territory where Yiddish is the dominant language and beat cops, called "latkes," attempt to crack Hasidic crime rings. - Conversation with Nathan Englander
Wed, 02 May 2007 18:29:56 GMT
Nathan Englander talks about his new novel and about his recent trip to Buenos Aires, the city his characters inhabit, and which he avoided throughout the decade it took to write his book. - Jerusalem Time
Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:56:34 GMT
Journalist Amy Dockser Marcus looks back a century to a time when rival interests energized the city she loves. - Solomon's Son
Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:55:07 GMT
April 28 is Freedom Day in South Africa - a national holiday celebrating the anniversary of the first democratic elections to be held, following the collapse of the apartheid regime. Accordingly, this week we hear from human rights advocate Albie Sachs, now serving his 13th year on South Africa's Constitutional Court. - Next Year in Sulaymaniyah
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:31:38 GMT
Jessie Graham on hosting a seder in northern Iraq, complete with slaughtered lamb and debates about Abraham. - Liberated Bride
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:44:22 GMT
A conversation with Alix Kates Shulman, author of "Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen," featuring the intellectually and sexually precocious heroine Sasha Davis and considered by many to be America's first feminist novel. - Family Photo
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:09:01 GMT
Photographer Andrea Stern on a new book of her work titled "Inheritance." - The Haman Show
Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:07:45 GMT
Daily Show writer Rob Kutner talks about his Purim parody - Blues Brother
Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:26:12 GMT
Music critic Alex Halberstadt on Doc Pomus, born Jerome Felder, blues singer and later songwriter for Elvis Presley, Dion, Joe Turner, the Drifters and the like. - Andre Aciman turns up the heat
Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:27:59 GMT
Conversation with Andre Aciman, author of Out of Egypt, a memoir of his childhood in Alexandria, and, most recently, a steamy novel titled Call Me By Your Name. - Bar Mitzvah Breakthrough
Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:14:27 GMT
The second of three reports from Jesse Green as he chronicles the year leading up to his son Erez's bar mitzvah. - Aline Kominsky Crumb, comic book pioneer
Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:21:15 GMT
Aline Kominsky Crumb has rebelled against many, from her Long Island parents, grandparents and great grandparents to the feminists she crossed paths with in the 1970s. She talks with us about these and other chapters in her life, about her longtime collaboration with husband Robert Crumb, and about her new book, Need More Love. - Conversation with Norman Mailer
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:01:42 GMT
Norman Mailer died this past Saturday. In his memory, we're re-posting his conversation with Nextbook, recorded in January, 2007. - In Search of Iraqi Dates
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:52:24 GMT
The story of an unusual import export venture that begins and ends with Iraqi dates. - Operation Shylock
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:54:49 GMT
F. Murray Abraham and the Theater for a New Audience tackle two of the most controversial characters in classic English theater. - La Nona Kanta
Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:04:12 GMT
Flory Jagoda shares memories and Sephardic songs from her upbringing in a large musical family that lived in a village outside Sarajevo until World War II. - Blade II and Fried Rice
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:11:57 GMT
Writer/performer Janice Erlbaum on spending Christmas Eve at a homeless shelter. - Remembering Daniel Fuchs
Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:37:48 GMT
Growing up Jake Fuchs thought of his father as a screenwriter. At 12, he discovered otherwise. - Nelly Reifler asks the Big Questions
Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:22:50 GMT
Fiction writer and Nextbook.org columnist Nelly Reifler asks everyone around her - from the neighborhood barista to the rabbi who married her - where they stand on questions of faith. Now we're turning the tables. - Nextbook goes to Kosherfest
Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:36:44 GMT
A visit to the biggest annual kosher food tradeshow in the world. - Ghetto Music
Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:56:13 GMT
Interview with Italian musicologist and radio host Francesco Spagnolo. - Jody Rosen on Jewface
Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:43:02 GMT
Slate music critic Jody Rosen discusses Jewface, an album of early 20th-century Vaudeville songs that affectionately invoke and mock Jewish stereotypes. - Bar Mitzvah Blues
Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:11:58 GMT
Jesse Green's bar mitzvah year, Part I. - Table Talk
Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:11:54 GMT
- Laughing Out Loud
Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:15:10 GMT
- Across the Great Divide
Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:48:18 GMT
- Paper Trail
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:25:23 GMT
From a Frankfurt stamp auction to a Stockholm apartment, Reinhard Kaiser's search for clues to a wartime romance. - All the Right Moves
Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:06:54 GMT
- Sway to the Music
Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:25:41 GMT
Bluesman Jeremiah Lockwood finds his voice in his grandfather's liturgical repertoire. - Family History
Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:38:23 GMT
Daniel Mendelsohn on the discoveries that led to his new memoir, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. - A Higher Purpose
Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:34:02 GMT
Reporter Lauren Sandler shares stories from her journeys among Evangelical Christian youth. - American Iconoclast
Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:59:10 GMT
- Rebel Yells
Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:56:30 GMT
Novelist Naomi Alderman talks about her love-hate relationship with the Orthodox community in London. - Private Dancer
Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:00:29 GMT
Jill Slater has found the perfect job - at least on evenings and weekends. - Oudist Colony
Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:03:47 GMT
- Something Wild
Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:19:48 GMT
Poetry writer and teacher Eve Grubin talks about combining her poetic and religious strivings. - Feel the Burn
Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:36:04 GMT
Poet Wayne Koestenbaum reveals his toxic attractions - Childhood in Black and White
Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:32:15 GMT
Illustrator Miriam Katin discusses her graphic novel, We Are On Our Own, which recounts her and her mother's escape from Nazi-occupied Budapest in 1944. - Roots Music
Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:58:55 GMT
Galeet Dardashti finds the Israeli audience her grandfather never had - King of the Forest
Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:21:27 GMT
- The Greatest American Hero
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:38:39 GMT
Gary Shteyngart talks about fact, fiction, and religion in his new novel, Absurdistan. - Light and Sweet
Tue, 30 May 2006 17:43:49 GMT
A slice of life at a Bronx cheesecake factory - A Man Possessed
Mon, 22 May 2006 12:46:27 GMT
A visit with the composer who took over where Marc Blitzstein left off. - Free Radical
Mon, 15 May 2006 10:33:41 GMT
Rebecca Goldstein talks to Sara Ivry about her biography of Spinoza. - How to Lose Gracefully
Mon, 08 May 2006 11:20:48 GMT
Israeli writer Etgar Keret's short stories look toward Kafka and Vonnegut rather than Yehoshua or Oz. - Give 'Em Hecht
Mon, 01 May 2006 11:57:43 GMT
Neal Pollack talks about screenwriter, book author, and journalist Ben Hecht. - Sketches of Spain
Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:51:20 GMT
French writer Marcel Cohen on "Searching for a Lost Ladino: Letters to Antonio Saura," a book he wrote in Judeo-Spanish, the all-but-lost language of his grandparents. - Halves and Halve-Nots
Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:58:13 GMT
Laurel Snyder on the challenges of a split religious identity. Snyder is the editor of a new essay collection titled Half/Life: Jewish Tales from Interfaith Homes. - A Seder in Sulaymaniyah
Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:47:03 GMT
Writer and reporter Jessie Graham describes hosting her first seder, while living in Sulaymaniya, in Northern Iraq. - Move Over, Fruit Slices
Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:52:20 GMT
- Silver Lining
Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:08:23 GMT
- Being Leah Bloom
Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:03:56 GMT
- Radical Roots
Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:08:38 GMT
- Aunt Linda's a Singer
Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:34:35 GMT
- My Bachelor Uncle
Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:06:59 GMT
Journalist Ian Buruma's uncle, John Schlesinger, directed many unforgettable films, including Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday, and Marathon Man. - Beats Without Borders
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:25:20 GMT
- My Son, the Assimilator
Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:45:11 GMT
- Fists of Fury
Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:41:13 GMT
Douglas Century talks about Talmud student, champion prizefighter, war hero, gunrunner, and recovered morphine addict Barney Ross. - Dispatches
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:01:39 GMT
An audio interview with the editor of A Writer at War. - Falling Out
Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:21:04 GMT
- Durban Renewal
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:09:20 GMT
- Virgin Territory
Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:44:14 GMT
- Immaterial Girl
Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:03:24 GMT
- Barbie, Daughter of Ruth
Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:12:00 GMT
- Ghetto Music
Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:43:34 GMT
- Headlights
Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:25:33 GMT
- Pulling Out the Stops
Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:29:54 GMT
- Food Fight
Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:53:32 GMT
- Spelling Errors
Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:59:46 GMT
- The Good Doctor
Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:04:09 GMT
- A History of Violence
Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:35:44 GMT
- Faking It
Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:24:49 GMT
When girls want to know how Stacy Friedman's bat mitzvah compares with my own, I need to be armed with answers. - Among the Holy Schleppers
Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:53:59 GMT
- Raising King David
Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:46:31 GMT
- From Bukhara With Love
Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:54:49 GMT
The music of Central Asia by way of Queens. - The Little Believer
Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:03:30 GMT
- Block Buster
Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:47:26 GMT
- Third Look
Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:49:49 GMT
On rereading Leonard Michaels' I Would Have Saved Them If I Could - Playing the Jester
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:25:48 GMT
