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In The Tunisian Revolution: Origins, Course and Aftermath

Read by Mohamed Salah-Omri and Michael Willis


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

מדינת היהודים (The Jewish State)

Read by Omri Lernau


Theodor Herzl


Der Judenstaat (German, The Jewish State) is a book written by Theodor Herzl and published in 1896 in Leipzig and Vienna by M. Breitenstein'…

סיפורים קצרים Short Stories

Read by Omri Lernau


שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem


This recording is in Hebrew.Stories included:רבי דב (Rabbi Dov)שני תרנגולים (Two Cocks)פסח שנשבת (Pesach Celebration Spoiled)יוסל הגנן (Yose…

על פרשת דרכים At the Crossroads (Selected Essays)

Read by Omri Lernau


אחד העם Ahad Ha'Am


Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (1856 - 1927), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name Ahad Ha'am (literally "one of the people"…

בעמק הבכא The Wishing-Ring

Read by Omri Lernau


מנדלה מוכר ספרים Mendele Mocher Sforim


Mendele Mocher Sforim (Mendele Book seller, literary name for Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch) (1835 - 1917, b. Kapulye, Belorussia), one of the f…

ספר הקבצנים Fishke the Lame (The Book of Beggars)

Read by Omri Lernau


מנדלה מוכר ספרים Mendele Mocher Sforim


Mendele Mocher Sforim (Literary name for Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch) (1835 - 1917, b. Kapulye, Belorussia), one of the first modern Jewish wr…

אהבת ציון Love of Zion

Read by Omri Lernau


אברהם מאפו Abraham Mapu


Abraham Mapu was born in 1808 near Kaunas, today in Lithuania. He worked as a teacher and later joined the Jewish enlightenment movement. In…

מסעות בנימין השלישי The Wanderings of Benjamin III

Read by Omri Lernau


מנדלה מוכר ספרים Mendele Mocher Sforim


Mendele Mocher Sforim (Literary name for Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch) (1835 - 1917, b. Kapulye, Belorussia), one of the first modern Jewish wr…

אסופת מסות ומאמרים Selection of Essays and Articles

Read by Omri Lernau


אליעזר בן־יהודה Eliezer Ben-Yehuda


Eliezer Izhak Perlman (1858-1922) signed his articles as E. Ben Yehuda. He was a key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language. H…

בחורף In Winter

Read by Omri Lernau


יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner


Yosef Haim Brenner (1881-1921) was a Ukrainian-born Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Born to a poor …

עולה (Injustice), with excerpt from The Escaping Club

Read by Omri Lernau


יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner


This is a bilingual project. The first part, in Hebrew, is the story "Injustice" by Yosef Haim Brenner, written following the conq…

מעמק עכור Out of a Gloomy Valley

Read by Omri Lernau


יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner


Yosef Haim Brenner (1881-1921) was a Ukrainian-born Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Born to a poor …

בגנים In the Gardens

Read by Omri Lernau


אורי ניסן גנסין Uri Nissan Gnessin


Uri Nissan Gnessin was born in Starodub, where his father was a rabbi. He left home at an early age, and moving from one yeshiva to the anot…

מרים Miriam

Read by Omri Lernau


מיכה יוסף ברדיצ'בסקי Micha Josef Berdyczewski and מיכה יוסף ברדיצ'בסקי Micha Josef Berdichevsky


Micha Josef Berdyczewski (surname also written Berdichevsky) was a Ukrainian-born writer of Hebrew, a journalist, and a scholar. He appealed…

אצל Etsel

Read by Omri Lernau


אורי ניסן גנסין Uri Nissan Gnessin


Uri Nissan Gnessin was a Russian Jewish writer, generally considered a pioneer of modern Hebrew literature. His first book was published in …

מכאן ומשם From Here and There

Read by Omri Lernau


יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner


Yosef Haim Brenner (murdered by Arab terrorists in 1921 at the age of 40) presented in his book "From Here and There" a piercing, …

?לאן (Whither?)

Read by Omri Lernau


מרדכי זאב פיארברג Mordecai Ze'Ev Feierberg


Mordecai Ze’ev Feierberg was a Jewish Hebrew writer in Russia. He was attracted to enlightenment and to medieval Hebrew poetry. Feierberg wa…

שבעה סיפורים Seven Stories

Read by Omri Lernau


יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner


שכול וכשלון Breakdown and Bereavement

Read by Omri Lernau


יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner


Breakdown and Bereavement, first published in 1920, is the story of a young Jewish immigrant in Palestine in the early 20th century. Like ma…