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Yiddish Tales (יידיש מעשה)

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It Is Well by I. L. Peretz

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) Proof-listening by Ans Wink, K. Fowler, & Aron Horovitz

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Listen next episodes of Yiddish Tales (יידיש מעשה):
A Gloomy Wedding by Mordechai Spektor , A Jewish Child by Shalom Asch , A Livelihood by Judah Steinberg , A Picnic by S. Libin , A Scholar's Mother by Shalom Asch , A Simple Story by Shalom Asch , An Easy Fast by שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem , An Original Strike by Mordechai Spektor , As the Years Roll On by Tashrak , At the Matzos by Judah Steinberg , Avrahom the Orchard Keeper by Abraham Reisen , Bertzi Wasserfuhrer by Isaiah Lerner , Country Folk by Isaac Dov Berkowitz , Ezrielk the Scribe by Isaiah Lerner , Fishel the Teacher by שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem , Forlorn and Forsaken by Isaiah Berschadski , Gymnasiye by שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem , If It Was a Dream by Löb Schapiro , Late by Abraham Reisen , Lost His Voice by Abraham Reisen , Manasseh by S. Libin , Military Service by מיכה יוסף ברדיצ'בסקי Micha Josef Berdyczewski , Poverty by Mordechai Spektor , Reb Shoimeh by David Pinski , Sabbath by Eliezer David Rosenthal , Shut In by Abraham Reisen , Slack Times They Sleep by S. Libin , The Charitable Loan by Abraham Reisen , The Clever Rabbi by Anonymous , The Clock by שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem , The Hole in a Beigel by Tashrak , The Kaddish by Abraham Reisen , The Last of Them by Isaac Dov Berkowitz , The Passover Guest by שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem , The Rav & the Rav's Son by Hirsh David Naumberg , The Sinner by Shalom Asch , The Two Brothers by Abraham Reisen , Three Who Ate by David Frischmann , Whence a Proverb by I. L. Peretz , Women by Meyer Blinkin , Yitzchok Yossel Broitgerber by Isaiah Lerner , Yohrzeit for Mother by S. Libin , Yom Kippur by Eliezer David Rosenthal