Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder), credited to Sholem Aleichem, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder) by Sholem Aleichem. Translated by Hannah Berman Read by Adrian Praetzellis. Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about life in a late 19th-century Russian-Jewish village -- the world of my grandparents. Sholem Rabinovich (1859-1916) was born in Pereiaslav, Ukraine and later immigrated to New York. His short stories about Tevye and his daughters were freely adapted into the musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Rabinovich's will contained the following injunction: "Let my name be recalled with laughter or not at all." His translator, Hannah Berman, was Irish of Lithuanian descent. Some of these stories may be too intense for younger children. (summary by Adrian Praetzellis) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)
• Author credits: Sholem Aleichem
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 7:36:05

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• historical fiction
• children

Track guide

1. 01 A page from the Song of Songs — 17:58
2. 02 Passover in a Village — 22:39
3. 03 Elijah the Phophet — 9:22
4. 04 Getzel — 19:23
5. 05 A Lost L'Ag Beomer — 13:04
6. 06 Murderers — 19:41
7. 07 Three Little Heads — 15:12
8. 08 Greens for Shevuous — 17:09
9. 09 Another page from the Song of Songs — 17:09
10. 10 A Pity for the Living — 11:31
11. 11 The Tabernacle (The Sukkah) — 21:56
12. 12 The Dead Citron — 20:10
13. 13 Isshur the Beadle — 22:25
14. 14 Boaz the Teacher — 18:26
15. 15 The Spinning Top — 41:44
16. 16 Esther — 15:56
17. 17 The Pocket-Knife — 43:45
18. 18 On the Fiddle — 57:14
19. 19 This Night — 51:26

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