567 Your Dream Guest: Jessica Kirzane on Translating Yiddish Literature | My Last Book with Jack Zipes

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Your wish is our command! Jacke talks to listener-nominated "dream guest" Dr. Jessica Kirzane about her work with Yiddish literature, including her recent translations of early twentieth-century writer Miriam Karpilove, Diary of a Lonely Girl and A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories. PLUS fairy-tale expert Jack Zipes (Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion) returns to the show to select his choice for the last book he will ever read. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, it's a special day here at the History of Literature. You have requested and we have delivered.
0:16.3	Our first dream guest as chosen by you, the listeners, today on the history of literature.
0:24.0	Okay, here we go.
0:29.0	Hello everyone.
0:30.0	Welcome to the podcast.
0:31.0	Thank you for being here today, a dream guest. Some of you may recall
0:36.2	that we put the word out for dream guest nominations a few months ago. We were flooded with
0:40.8	responses.
0:42.7	And I said, we'll try to land at least one of these
0:44.8	before the holiday season.
0:46.8	Some of the guests are a little ambitious,
0:50.2	even for the number one in the books category podcast
0:55.2	asterisk in the Bahamas
0:57.2	but we will keep working on the list in the new year
1:00.1	try to get some more dream guests to join us here in the studio. My favorite response is when someone
1:06.7	nominates a dream guest who has already been a guest here on the podcast. Well, what can I say? We've
1:11.9	been doing this a long time. The archive has
1:13.8	swollen. Might not always be hard to find those dream guests back in the back
1:18.9	catalog, but I do like responding and saying, okay, wonderful idea, and here's a link to the episode.
1:25.0	Your wish is our command, dear listener.
1:28.0	Well, today is not like that.
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