Yiddish Tales (יידיש מעשה): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Yiddish Tales (יידיש מעשה), credited to Various, 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 Yiddish Tales, by various authors. Read by Adrian Praetzellis. A collection of 48 wonderful English language stories from Sholem Alechem, I. L. Perez, Shalom Asch, and others. Tales of humour and drama, tragedy and pathos set mostly in the Jewish communities of 19th-century eastern Europe, Russia, and the Ukraine. Translated from Yiddish by Helena Frank. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Yiddish Tales (יידיש מעשה)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 49
• Listed recording duration: 18:15:05

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• Jewish authors
• Reuben Asher Braudes
• Jehalel
• Isaac Lob Perez
• Mordecai Spektor
• Sholem Alechem
• Eliezer David Rosenthal

Opening tracks: first 24 of 49

1. 01 - Preface and Acknowledgements — 7:27
2. 02 - The Misfortune by Reuben Asher Braudes — 30:53
3. 03 - Earth of Palestine by Jehalel — 49:57
4. 04 - A Woman's Wrath by Isaac Lob Perez — 16:30
5. 05 - A Treasure by Isaac Lob Perez — 11:53
6. 06 - It Is Well by Isaac Lob Perez — 13:09
7. 07 - Whence a Proverb by Isaac Lob Perez — 13:31
8. 08 - An Original Strike by Mordecai Spektor — 14:55
9. 09 - A Gloomy Wedding by Mordecai Spektor — 32:39
10. 10 - Poverty by Mordecai Spektor — 10:59
11. 11 - The Clock by Sholem Alechem — 21:48
12. 12 - Fishel the Teacher by Sholem Alechem — 36:47
13. 13 - An Easy Fast by Sholem Alechem — 21:28
14. 14 - The Passover Guest by Sholem Alechem — 17:42
15. 15 - Gymnasiye by Sholem Alechem — 40:16
16. 16 - Sabbath by Eliezer David Rosenthal — 11:53
17. 17 - Yom Kippur by Eliezer David Rosenthal — 43:45
18. 18 - Bertzi Wasserfuhrer by Isaiah Lerner — 18:16
19. 19 - Ezrielk the Scribe by Isaiah Lerner — 34:45
20. 20 - Yitzchok Yossel Broitgerber by Isaiah Lerner — 24:07
21. 21 - A Livelihood by Judah Steinberg — 15:29
22. 22 - At the Matzos by Judah Steinberg — 13:53
23. 23 - Three Who Ate by David Frischmann — 19:40
24. 24 - Military Service by Micha Joseph Berdyczewski — 20:52

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