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- A shtetl
  
  ISAAC MEIR WEISSENBERG, A shtetl (A Town)3-CD set.Weissenberg is known for his unromantic view of the Jewish shtetl and in this, his most renowned novella, Weissenberg not only shows the poverty and depravity of the shtetl, but also describes how the revolutionary ideas that were popular in the cities resonated among the poor Jewish townsfolk.
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- Arum vokzal
  
  DAVID BERGELSON, Arum vokzal (At the Depot)3-CD set.Bergelson’s 1909 novella, a description of class struggle among Depot workers in pre-Soviet Russia, brought him to the attention of the Russian Yiddish intelligentsia.
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- Der knekht
  
  ISAAC BASHEVIS-SINGER, Der Knekht (The Slave) 10-CD set. Set in the aftermath of the Chmielnicki massacres, a man is enslaved by Ukrainian peasants only to fall in love with the daughter of his captors.
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  $75.00
- Der Tilim Yid
  
  SHOLEM ASCH, Der tilim Yid (Salvation)18-CD set.The main character of Asch’s epic of 19th century Polish Jewry, due to his simplicity, is only able to interpret the Psalms, but because of his great compassion and pity is able to rally together the sick and poor. The Tilim-Yid or Psalm-Jew is able to uplift these ragged characters by his simple hope in their goodness, and thus despite his lack of learning is able to find salvation.
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  $90.00
- Dertseylungen
  
  ISRAEL JOSHUA SINGER, Dertseylungen (Stories)10-CD set.A selection of I.J. Singer’s stories spanning the years of his most productive literary output. The recorded stories include striking works about the Russian Civil War and gripping social drama.
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  $75.00
- Di brider Ashkenazi
  
  ISRAEL JOSHUA SINGER, Di brider Ashkenazi (The Brothers Ashkenazi) 25-CD setConsidered to be Singer’s finest novel, Di brider Ashkenazi is a vast and nuanced social epic that traces the history of the textile merchants in Lodz, Poland, from the Post-Napoleonic era until the 1920’s. Following the story of the most successful textile merchant, Max Ashkenazi, Singer echoes the great European epic novelists like Tolstoy and Zola, but at the same time creates a novel distinctly Jewish.
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- Di ershte bagegenish
  
  BELLA CHAGALL4 compact disc set
  
  $50.00
- Di kliatshe
  
  by Mendele Moykher Sforim, 5-CD set, read in Yiddish by William Weinstein
  
  $50.00
- Di mishpohe Karnovski
  
  ISRAEL JOSHUA SINGER, Di mishpokhe Karnovski (The Family Carnovski)17-CD set.Di mishpokhe Karnovski follows three generations of the Carnovski family as they move through Poland, Germany, and finally America before and during the Second World War.
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- Dos mayse-bukh fun mayn lebn/Mayn leksikon – The Story Book of My Life/My Biographical Dictionary
  
  This two-part audio book combines selections from Melekh Ravitch’s best-loved prose. Dos mayse-bukh fun mayn lebn is a collection of autobiographical fragments describing Ravitch’s youth in the Galician shtetl of Radom and his experiences as part of the avant-garde literary movement in Warsaw. The selections from Mayn leksikon focus on writers who were active in Montreal Yiddish culture. Each entry in Mayn leksikon paints an intimate portrait of its subject’s work, personality and relationship with Ravitch.
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- Dray matones un andere dertseylungen
  
  by Isaac Leib Peretz, 1-CD, read in Yiddish by Miriam Kressyn
  
  $20.00
- Folkstimelkhe geshikhtn (Folk Tales)
  
  ISAAC LEIB PERETZ.Folkstimlekhe geshikhtn is a collection of Peretz’s pseudo-folk tales. In these famous stories, including Dray khupes, (Three Wedding Canopies), Peretz emulates popular Yiddish folk stories with their superstitious, occult themes and transforms them into powerful literary statements.
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- Fun Kasrilevke
  
  by Sholem Aleichem, 5-CD set, read in Yiddish by Malca Sussman Hubner
  
  $50.00
- Hasidish (Hasidic Tales)
  
  ISAAC LEIB PERETZ.Peretz’s controversial collection of stories told in the allegorical style of the Baal Shem Tov and Nachman of Bratzlav. Many Yiddish belletrists and political activists thought Peretz was watering down his progressive Yiddish literary style by using the form of an older, “ignorant” time, but the stories in this collection such as Oyb nisht nokh hekher, If Not Higher, still resonate with readers today.
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- Kidesh hashem
  
  by Sholem Asch, 5-CD set, read in Yiddish by Cecylia Serlin
  
  $50.00
- Motl peysi dem khazns
  
  by Sholem Aleichem, 9-CD set, read in Yiddish by Leib Rubinov
  
  $70.00
- Oyf di felder fun Treblinke – In the Fields of Treblinka
  
  RACHEL AUERBACH.A journalist, Auerbach, survived World War II in hiding outside the ghetto in Warsaw, and was part of a Jewish research team that visited the Nazi death camp in Treblinka in 1945. Her report, Oyf di felder fun Treblinke, combines a journalistic account of her discoveries with a literary reaction to the horrors of the Holocaust and is one of the earliest examples of Holocaust literature.
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- Oyfn zeydns felder – Grandfather’s Ac
  
  ISAAC METZKER.A journalist for the Jewish Daily Forward, Metzker wrote this novel in 1953 as a memorial to life in his Galician hometown before the Second World War. In its time, Metzker’s lyrical and earthy novel was compared to Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil.ISAAC METZKER.A journalist for the Jewish Daily Forward, Metzker wrote this novel in 1953 as a memorial to life in his Galician hometown before the Second World War. In its time, Metzker’s lyrical and earthy novel was compared to Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil.
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  $85.00
- Peterburg
  
  SHOLEM ASCH, Peterburg (St. Petersburg)11-CD set.The first part of Asch’s trilogy Dray shtet (Three Cities) is a sweeping historical novel that describes the unfolding of the Russian revolution and its effect on Jews in St. Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow.
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  $75.00
- Poyln: bk. 2, "Kinder yorn"
  
  Y. Y. TRUNK, Poyln: tsveyt bukh, kinder-yorn (Poland: Book Two, Childhood)9-CD set.The second of Trunk’s seven volume autobiographical portrait of Poland which he wrote when he settled in America in 1941.
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- Riva Yosl Buntsyes
  
  DER NISTER, [Pinchas Kaganovitch], Riva Yosl Buntsyes (Riva, Yosl-Buntzia’s Daughter) compact disc. A 1945 short work by the master of Yiddish symbolist prose revolving around the life of a literally outstanding woman whose power on those around her is uniquely felt before and under the Nazi occupation of Poland.
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- Roman fun a ferd ganef
  
  JOSEPH OPATOSHU, Roman fun a ferd ganev (Romance of a Horse Thief)3-CD set.Opatoshu’s first novel describes the adventures of Eliahu Vilner, a robber of aristocrats and priests but never of Jews, and Zanvel, a horse thief who, despite his hard character and life of crime, dreams of respectability and honor.
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- Shtetl
  
  SHOLEM ASCH 4 compact disc set
  
  $50.00
- Tevye der milkhiger
  
  Tevye the Dairyman 5-CD set. Sholem-Aleichem’s collection of stories involves the most beloved and well-known character in Yiddish literature, Tevye the Dairyman. Tevye, the vivacious, Bible-misquoting hero, eventually became the basis for the Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof.
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- Ven Poyln iz gefaln
  
  by Joseph Opatoshu, 9-CD set, read in Yiddish by Liba Augenfeld
  
  $70.00