Yiddish Instruction
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- A Novel
- By: Michael Chabon
- Narrated by: Peter Riegert
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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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 and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the district is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end.
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Didn't finish...
- By Ann E O'Connor on 10-16-17
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Peter Riegert
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-05-16
- Language: English
- 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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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
- By: Ilan Stavans - editor, Josh Lambert - editor
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology of the interplay of Yiddish and American culture, edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert. It starts with the arrival of Ashkenazi immigrants to NYC's Lower East Side and follows Yiddish as it moves into Hollywood.
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Excellent content, mediocre narration
- By Paul Stevenson on 03-29-23
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-25-20
- Language: English
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Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology....
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Yiddish
- A Nation of Words
- By: Miriam Weinstein
- Narrated by: J. L. Glick
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the remarkable story of how this humble language took vigorous root in Eastern European shtetls and in the Jewish quarters of cities across Europe; how it achieved a rich literary flowering between the wars in Europe and America; how it was rejected by emancipated Jews; and how it fell victim to the Holocaust. And also how, in yet another twist of destiny, Yiddish today is becoming the darling of academia. Yiddish is a history as story; a tale of flesh-and-blood people with manic humor.
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Incredible book. Wonderful narration.
- By Andy on 08-27-21
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Yiddish
- A Nation of Words
- Narrated by: J. L. Glick
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 03-08-12
- Language: English
- 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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Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
- By: Paul Kriwaczek
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Tracing Yiddish civilization from its roots in the Diaspora to the present, Paul Kriwaczek combines intimate family anecdote, travelogue, historical research, and interviews with scholars to give us a rich portrait of a nearly extinguished culture as it survived across the centuries. He begins his chronicle in Jerusalem, with the destruction of the Jewish temple at the hands of the Romans in the year 70. We see the burgeoning exile population disperse, moving outward and northward throughout the following centuries, making their mark in more far flung cities under Roman rule.
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Disorganized, inconclusive and disappointing
- By Alex on 12-15-20
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Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 10-17-11
- Language: English
- Tracing Yiddish civilization from its roots in the Diaspora to the present....
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The New Joys of Yiddish
- Completely Updated
- By: Leo Rosten, Lawrence Bush - editor
- Narrated by: Ron Rifkin, Peter Riegert, Harry Goz, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten presented the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. Said to "give body and soul to the Yiddish language," The Joys of Yiddish went on to become an indispensable tool for writers, journalists, politicians and students, as well as a perennial best seller for three decades.
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A must-read for anyone interested in Jewish culture and/or linguistics!
- By Kim on 01-26-23
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The New Joys of Yiddish
- Completely Updated
- Narrated by: Ron Rifkin, Peter Riegert, Harry Goz, Michael Goz, Larry Keith, Carole Shelley
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-05-19
- Language: English
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More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, The New Joys of Yiddish brings Leo Rosten’s masterful work up to date....
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The Yid
- A Novel
- By: Paul Goldberg
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Moscow, February 1953. A week before Stalin's death, his final pogrom, "one that would forever rid the Motherland of the vermin", is in full swing. Three government goons arrive in the middle of the night to arrest Solomon Shimonovich Levinson, an actor from the defunct State Jewish Theater. But Levinson, though an old man, is a veteran of past wars, and his shocking response to the intruders sets in motion a series of events both zany and deadly as he proceeds to assemble a ragtag group to help him enact a mad-brilliant plot: the assassination of a tyrant.
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Great performance !
- By UGC on 03-05-18
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The Yid
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 10-03-16
- Language: English
- 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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Yiddish with George and Laura
- By: Ellis Weiner, Barbara Davilman
- Narrated by: Ellis Weiner, Barbara Davilman
- Length: 49 mins
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In this hilarious new primer-style book, George, Laura, and the entire Bush family communicate with uncharacteristic expressiveness, conveying shades of feeling and nuances of meaning that plain old English can't deliver--by peppering their conversation with Yiddishisms.
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Yiddish with George and Laura
- Narrated by: Ellis Weiner, Barbara Davilman
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 10-10-06
- Language: English
- In this hilarious new primer-style book, the entire Bush family communicates with uncharacteristic expressiveness, peppering their conversation with Yiddishisms....
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