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Tori Avey visits with us to talk about Jewish food and to share tips on making the perfect latke. A convert to Judaism, Tori is a "culinary anthropologist" and author of the award-winning "The Shiksa in the Kitchen," a food blog about Jewish cuisine. Episode 0050 December 11, 2012 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

Jordan Kutzik, senior fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, is overseeing the restoration and remastering of some 1,000 hours of archival recordings of Yiddish writers. In an interview with Aaron Lansky, Kutzik shares stories about the amazing content he's finding on these historic tapes and the surprises he's encountering in the process. Episode 0049 December 4, 2012 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

Award-winning director Erik Anjou talks to us about his latest documentary project "The Deli Man." Anjou has been traveling across the country in pursuit of the story of deli, including the deli man Ziggy Gruber. We caught up with him on the trail to learn about the film, the deli culture, and the people behind the counter. Episode 0048 November 27, 2012 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

Photographer Arnold Chekow visits with Aaron Lansky to share stories about the Yiddish cultural icons he photographed in New York in the 1960s. Episode 0047 November 20, 2012 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

The story behind the newly released "Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary." Professor Solon Beinfeld and Dr. Harry Bochner, editors of the new "Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary," visit with Aaron Lansky and share the story behind their soon-to-be-released dictionary. Episode 0046 November 13, 2012 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

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

Los Angeles Times and NPR film critic Kenneth Turan talks with us about "Lost Embrace" (Argentina's 2004 Academy Award entry/Best Foreign Film), the eccentric and sweet story of a young man working at a mall in the Jewish neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Episode 0035 July 25, 2012 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

Noah Gardenswartz is a stand-up comedian performing three shows of “global Jewish comedy” on the East Coast next week. Listen in as he talks about the common humor Jewish communities share and how he’s trying to break out of the Jewish comedy format. Episode 0034 July 13, 2012 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

Peter Manseau won the National Jewish Book Award for "Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter," a semi-autobiographical and semi-historical novel about Yiddish literature and preservation. In this conversation with Josh Lambert, Manseau reflects on his time as an intern at the Yiddish Book Center and the obsession with Yiddish he can't seem to shake. Episode 0033 July 10, 2012 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts

The Lemon Bucket Orkestra went viral this spring with a video of an impromptu klezmer performance on a delayed flight from Toronto to Frankfurt. Emma Morgenstern catches up with Mark Marczyk, the band's fiddler, about their captive audience and other wacky venues the band has graced with song. Episode 0032 July 3, 2012 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, MA

Dan Okrent, co-creator of "Old Jews Telling Jokes Onstage," talks somewhat seriously about the comedic off-Broadway production, or as he refers to it, his first project "specifically designed to make people happy." Episode 0030 June 26, 2012 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts