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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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: 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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    • 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: Isaac Baashevis Singer
    • Narrated by: Moni Ovadia
    • Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • 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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    • 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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