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Emma Morgenstern

Emma Morgenstern is a freelance radio producer based in New York and an alum of the radio program at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She is also the associate producer of Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds, an interactive show about birdwatching out of the Boston area. With an academic background in linguistics, Emma has studied Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), Hebrew and Spanish. She likes to cover religion, food, and culture in her radio reporting.
An archival photo of matzo-making at Streit's on the Lower East Side; things haven't changed all that much at the factory over the decades.
Food
A family that’s made matzo on the Lower East Side for nearly a century prepares to leave the neighborhood
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Conflict
Hiking once saved this Cambodian refugee’s life — and now it’s his therapy
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Lifestyle & Belief
Tamarind is the ‘sour secret of Syrian cooking’
Aga Ilwicka-Sheppard is a PhD candidate in Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw in Poland. She was instrumental in getting the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts to send 3,000 Yiddish language books to Poland, including novels, dictionar
Arts, Culture & Media
This Polish grad student wants to help bring Yiddish back to life in Poland