Award-winning Carnegie Mellon health economist Martin Gaynor and Zackary Sholem Berger chat in Yiddish about competition, the Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as Obamacare), and the US healthcare system -- and why it's so expensive.װאָלװי

Episode 12: A Bilingual Poet in French and English

Feb 7th, 2017 32m 23s

Zackary Sholem Berger talks to Alexander Dickow, a poet, translator, and critic working in both French and English, about navigating countries, languages, and esthetics. With cameo appearances by Dr. Seuss, the Babylonian Talmud, and the Common

Making Sense of Medicine: Reading of Chapter 3 (Poverty) by Zackary Berger

Sep 14th, 2016 58m 5s

Zackary Berger reads Chapter 3 of Making Sense of Medicine at Writers Live, Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, September 13, 2016.

Episode 11, Eve Jochnowitz: Repopularizing a vegetarian chef, and favorite culinary memories

Sep 5th, 2016 26m 24s

Zackary Sholem Berger and the culinary ethnographer, cookbook expert, Yiddish teacher and translator, and vegetarian blogger (&c., &c.) Eve Jochnowitz talk at the 2016 Yiddish Vokh about the pre-war vegetarian restauranteur of Vilna, Fania Lewa

Episode 10, Maggie Dubris: a medic-poet cares for the Manhattan poor through crack, AIDS, and 9/11

Aug 29th, 2016 34m

Maggie Dubris is a writer and composer in New York. She has published and performed widely. On Sholem's Bias, I talked to her about her new book, Brokedown Palace. I'll let her describe it:"For 24 years, I was a 911 paramedic at St. Clare’s,

Episode 9, Mercedes Cebrián: Choosing genres and languages - poet-essayist-journalist-translator

Aug 23rd, 2016 31m 24s

Zackary Sholem Berger and Spanish essayist, poet, translator and journalist Mercedes Cebrián talk about choosing words, languages, foods, and politicians.

Episode 7: Barbara Glickstein talks about nursing, media, and policy

Aug 15th, 2016 27m 52s

Nurse, advocate, and media expert Barbara Glickstein talks about nurses as overlooked leaders in the fight for equity and compassion in health care.

Episode 8: Eli Mandel about questions, lack of belief, and raising emotionally healthy children

Aug 9th, 2016 34m 57s

Eli Mandel, still recovering from ultra-Orthodoxy, talks with Zackary Sholem Berger about raising emotionally healthy children, not caring about God, and shiurim in a language you only half understand. The conversation is in Yiddish.

Making Sense of Medicine: Reading of Chapter 1 (Chronic Pain)

Aug 3rd, 2016 55m 32s

Zackary Berger reads Chapter 1 of Making Sense of Medicine and answers questions. Recorded August 2, 2016, at The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore, Maryland.

Episode 6, Josh Garoon: Neighborhoods, Trust, and Aging in Baltimore

Jul 27th, 2016 30m 15s

Zackary Sholem Berger chats with sociologist Josh Garoon about how older people in Baltimore understand their relationships with people, places, and institutions around them. How does trust, or lack thereof, influence aging, and is trust needed

Episode 5, Elinor Nauen: Poetry, Baseball, Cars, and Snow

Jul 19th, 2016 33m 45s

Zackary Sholem Berger chats with poet Elinor Nauen about the variegated interests which inform her verse -- baseball, cars, and (perhaps?) snow. Current major league standings are also included.

Episode 4 Nathaniel Comfort: Genetics, Eugenics, and Medicine

Jul 12th, 2016 28m 6s

Zack and Nathaniel Comfort, professor of history at Johns Hopkins and NASA/Library of Congress chair in astrobiology, talk about genetics, eugenics, and present-day medicine.

Episode 2, Adia Benton: Can Diseases Be Exceptional?

Jul 5th, 2016 32m 33s

What does it mean for some diseases to be treated differently from others? Medical anthropologist Adia Benton discusses her work on Ebola and HIV -- and the possible application of these ideas to the Zika phenomenon.

Episode 3, Dovid Herskovic: Why Did Brexit Happen? (Yiddish)

Jul 5th, 2016 23m 32s

Who is the British Trump, and why did Brexit happen? Check out one of our #Yiddish podcasts with London solicitor Dovid Herskovic.טראָמפּ איז דאָך נאָר אַן אַמעריקאַנער גילגול פֿון אַן אינטערנאַציִאָנאַלן פֿענאָמען. הערט זיך צו צו אַ שמועס מי