Yiddish Literature

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    • A Novel
    • By: Michael Chabon
    • Narrated by: Peter Riegert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-16
    • Language: English
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    • For 60 years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the federal district of Sitka, a temporary safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust....

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    • A Chronicle of Survival
    • By: Leyb Rochman
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • In By Your Blood You Will Live, Leyb Rochman chronicles his life of survival during the Holocaust. Begun in hiding, and completed in the years ...

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    • An Old Yiddish Folktale
    • By: Benjamin Westfried
    • Narrated by: David Armstrong
    • Length: 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-24
    • 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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    • A Family Saga
    • By: Moyshe Kulbak, Hillel Halkin - translator
    • Narrated by: David Skulski
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-17
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • A Nation of Words
    • By: Miriam Weinstein
    • Narrated by: J. L. Glick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-12
    • Language: English
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    • Here is the remarkable story of how Yiddish took vigorous root in Eastern European shtetls and in the Jewish quarters of cities across Europe....

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    • By: Sholem Aleichem
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-19
    • 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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    • A Yiddish Folktale
    • By: Benjamin Westfried
    • Narrated by: David Armstrong
    • Length: 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-24
    • 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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    • By: Gary Barwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Chaim Grade
    • Length: 21 hrs
    • Release date: 03-25-25
    • 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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    • Mein Jahr unter Ultraorthodoxen [My Year Among Ultra-Orthodox]
    • By: Tuvia Tenenbom
    • Narrated by: Gordon Piedesack
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-23
    • 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Paul Goldberg
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-16
    • Language: English
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    • A debut novel of daring originality, The Yid guarantees that you will never think of Stalinist Russia, Shakespeare, theater, Yiddish, or history the same way again....

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    • By: Gary Barwin
    • Narrated by: Keith Cinicol
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-17
    • Language: English
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    • Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the story of Moishe, a boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot....

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    • A Yiddish Lullaby
    • By: Susan Tarcov
    • Narrated by: Book Buddy Digital Media
    • Length: 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-19
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 03-05-13
    • Language: English
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    • Avrom Reisen (1876-1953) was an acclaimed and prolific Yiddish poet and short story writer for the American Yiddish dailies....

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