Yiddish Literature
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Yiddish for Pirates
- By: Gary Barwin
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion. From a present-day Florida nursing home, this wisecracking yet poetic bird guides us through a world of pirate ships, Yiddish jokes, and treasure maps. But Inquisition Spain is a dangerous time to be Jewish and Moishe joins a band of hidden Jews trying to preserve some forbidden books.
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Yiddish for Pirates
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2017
- Language: English
- Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Literature, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates....
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Pick a Pickle
- A Yiddish Folktale
- By: Benjamin Westfried
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In this Yiddish folk tale, the Rabbi of Chelm is sick of everyone coming to him to kvetch. Every day, he must listen to them complain about their daily plights, even before he has had his breakfast! To lessen his burden, he comes up with a solution to fix everyone’s problems—all they need is a new pickle.
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Pick a Pickle
- A Yiddish Folktale
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 20-11-2024
- Language: English
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In this Yiddish folk tale, the Rabbi of Chelm is sick of everyone coming to him to kvetch. Every day, he must listen to them complain about their daily plights, even before he has had his breakfast!
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The Bewitched Tailor
- By: Sholem Aleichem
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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At the end of the 19th century, Jewish writers began writing in Yiddish and creating for the first time popular literature that brought alive the small dramas, struggles, and joys of ordinary life. Sholem Aleichem was one of the very few modern writers who spoke for an entire people. This collection of stories includes the title piece and seven other tales.
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The Bewitched Tailor
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 22-02-2019
- Language: English
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At the end of the 19th century, Jewish writers began writing in Yiddish and creating for the first time popular literature that brought alive the small dramas, struggles, and joys of ordinary life. Sholem Aleichem was one of the very few modern writers who spoke for an entire people....
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The Simple-Minded Fishke of Chelm
- An Old Yiddish Folktale
- By: Benjamin Westfried
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 2 mins
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In this Yiddish folk tale, the town half-wit isn’t sure how to tell himself apart from other bathers in the shvitz, or public bathhouse. He must come up with a solution! Will a piece of string be able to help? Or will he just cause trouble for the other bathers?
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The Simple-Minded Fishke of Chelm
- An Old Yiddish Folktale
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2024
- Language: English
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In this Yiddish folk tale, the town half-wit isn’t sure how to tell himself apart from other bathers in the shvitz, or public bathhouse. He must come up with a solution! Will a piece of string be able to help? Or will he just cause trouble for the other bathers?
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Sons and Daughters
- A Novel
- By: Chaim Grade
- Length: 21 hrs
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Rabbi Sholem Shachne Katzenellenbogen’s world, the world of his forefathers, is crumbling before his eyes. And in his own home! His eldest, Bentzion, is off in Bialystok, studying to be a businessman; his daughter Bluma Rivtcha is in Vilna, at nursing school. For her older sister, Tilza, he at least managed to find a suitable young rabbi, but he can tell things are off between them. Naftali Hertz? Forget it; he’s been lost to a philosophy degree in Switzerland (and maybe even a goyish wife?). And now the rabbi’s youngest, Refael’ke, wants to run off to the Holy Land with the Zionists.
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Sons and Daughters
- A Novel
- Length: 21 hrs
- Release date: 25-03-2025
- Language: English
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From “one of the great—if not the greatest—contemporary Yiddish novelists” (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity.
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The Sweet Fragrance of Life and Other Horror Stories
- By: Elizabeth Schwartz
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Schwartz, Yelena Shmulenson
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Renowned Jewish vocalist and writer Elizabeth Schwartz’s first book of fiction “The Sweet Fragrance of Life & Other Stories” is a meditation on historic European Jewish Culture seen through the lens of a woman’s point of view. As if Sholem Aleichem and Angela Carter had a child, The Sweet Fragrance of Life & Other Horror Stories explores European Jewish history, culture, and real world events through a feminist, shtetl perspective. This is an eerie collection of new Jewish-themed horror stories from a world that was.
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The Sweet Fragrance of Life and Other Horror Stories
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Schwartz, Yelena Shmulenson
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 27-10-2024
- Language: English
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Renowned Jewish vocalist and writer Elizabeth Schwartz’s first book of fiction “The Sweet Fragrance of Life & Other Stories” is a meditation on historic European Jewish Culture seen through the lens of a woman’s point of view.
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The Zelmenyaners
- A Family Saga
- By: Moyshe Kulbak, Hillel Halkin - translator
- Narrated by: David Skulski
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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This is the first complete English-language translation of a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the 20th century. The Zelmenyaners describes the travails of a Jewish family in Minsk that is torn asunder by the new Soviet reality. Four generations are depicted in riveting and often uproarious detail as they face the profound changes brought on by the demands of the Soviet regime and its collectivist, radical secularism.
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The Zelmenyaners
- A Family Saga
- Narrated by: David Skulski
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 06-10-2017
- Language: English
- This is the first complete English-language translation of a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the 20th century....
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Gott spricht Jiddisch [God Speaks Yiddish]
- Mein Jahr unter Ultraorthodoxen [My Year Among Ultra-Orthodox]
- By: Tuvia Tenenbom
- Narrated by: Gordon Piedesack
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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Mea Schearim, die Stadt der 100 Tore, ist ein Viertel von Jerusalem, das fast ausschließlich von ultraorthodoxen Juden bewohnt wird. Um diese unfassbar aufregende und fremde Welt und ihre Spiritualität erfassen und verständlich machen zu können, muss man dort gelebt haben – so wie Tuvia Tenenbom, der in Mea Schearim aufgewachsen ist und nach vielen Jahren in New York hierher zurückgekehrt ist, um sich seiner Vergangenheit zu stellen: Denn Tenenbom entstammt selber einer ultraorthodoxen Familie, lernte in einer Jeschiwa, und ihm wurde eine Zukunft als einer der ganz großen Rabbis prophezeit.
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Gott spricht Jiddisch [God Speaks Yiddish]
- Mein Jahr unter Ultraorthodoxen [My Year Among Ultra-Orthodox]
- Narrated by: Gordon Piedesack
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 14-12-2023
- Language: German
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Mea Schearim, die Stadt der 100 Tore, ist ein Viertel von Jerusalem, das fast ausschließlich von ultraorthodoxen Juden bewohnt wird. Um diese unfassbar aufregende und fremde Welt und ihre Spiritualität erfassen und verständlich machen zu können, muss man dort gelebt haben – so wie Tuvia Tenenbom....
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The Stories of I.L. Peretz
- By: I.L. Peretz
- Narrated by: George Guidall, Suzanne Toren
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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I.L. Peretz, the acknowledged "Father of Yiddish Literature", captured the essence of Eastern European Jewish life. He wrote of the magical quality of kindness, and the bitter fruits of blind faith.
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The Stories of I.L. Peretz
- Narrated by: George Guidall, Suzanne Toren
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 22-07-2005
- Language: English
- I.L. Peretz, the acknowledged "Father of Yiddish Literature", captured the essence of Eastern European Jewish life....
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Poor Matza
- Selected stories of Avrom Reisen translated from the Yiddish by Harvey Fink
- By: Avrom Reisen, Harvey Fink - translator
- Narrated by: David Skulski
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Avrom Reisen (1876-1953) was an acclaimed and prolific Yiddish poet and short story writer for the American Yiddish dailies. This is a superb translation by Harvey Fink of some of Reisen's best short stories. At the time of Reisen's death, the Jewish Spectator wrote: "There are many Yiddish writers who owe their success to Reisen's encouragement. For years he published and edited, under great sacrifices, Yiddish journals with the primary aim of providing a platform for young, struggling writers....
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Poor Matza
- Selected stories of Avrom Reisen translated from the Yiddish by Harvey Fink
- Narrated by: David Skulski
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2013
- Language: English
- Avrom Reisen (1876-1953) was an acclaimed and prolific Yiddish poet and short story writer for the American Yiddish dailies....
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Il Golem
- By: Isaac Baashevis Singer
- Narrated by: Moni Ovadia
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
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Chi era il nonno dei robot? Il Golem è forse uno dei più antichi esseri artificiali leggendari: un gigante di argilla creato, su ispirazione divina, da un rabbino, in aiuto degli Ebrei di Praga; un enorme fantoccio che si anima sono quando in fronte gli viene inciso il completo Nome di Dio. In un primo tempo il Golem ubbidirà agli ordini, ma poi comincerà ad avere vita propria, a essere invaso dalla malinconia, a sentirsi solo e diverso. E tra mito, filosofia e fantascienza, la sua storia avrà un finale fiabesco.
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Il Golem
- Narrated by: Moni Ovadia
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-05-2021
- Language: Italian
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Chi era il nonno dei robot? Il Golem è forse uno dei più antichi esseri artificiali leggendari: un gigante di argilla creato, su ispirazione divina, da un rabbino, in aiuto degli Ebrei di Praga; un enorme fantoccio che si anima sono quando in fronte gli viene inciso il completo Nome di...
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The Yiddish King Lear : The Jewish King Lear
- By: Jacob Gordin, David Serero
- Narrated by: David Serero, full cast
- Length: 47 mins
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The Yiddish King Lear: The Jewish King Lear by Jacob Gordin is perhaps one of the most famous Yiddish plays of all time. Adapted in English and for the stage by David Serero. Starring David Serero as Reb Dovidl Moysheles.
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The Yiddish King Lear : The Jewish King Lear
- Narrated by: David Serero, full cast
- Length: 47 mins
- Release date: 11-06-2018
- Language: English
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The Yiddish King Lear: The Jewish King Lear by Jacob Gordin is perhaps one of the most famous Yiddish plays of all time....
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Raisins and Almonds
- A Yiddish Lullaby
- By: Susan Tarcov
- Narrated by: Book Buddy Digital Media
- Length: 4 mins
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What is the noise coming from under Annie's bed? It's a little white goat, says her mother. Together, mother and child create a fantastical adventure in an imaginary world.
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Raisins and Almonds
- A Yiddish Lullaby
- Narrated by: Book Buddy Digital Media
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 01-04-2019
- Language: English
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What is the noise coming from under Annie's bed? It's a little white goat, says her mother. Together, mother and child create a fantastical adventure in an imaginary world....
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