Audio Library

Below you'll find recordings from Book Center programs, as well as favorite stories from Yiddish and Jewish literature. We recommend that you use a player capable of streaming MP3 files, such as Windows Media Player.

  LECTURES/INTERVIEWS  

Aaron Lansky on Studio J, part 1. (16:32 minutes, MP3, 3.97 MB)
Aaron Lansky on Studio J, part 2. (8:35 minutes, MP3, 2.06 MB)
This two-part interview with the Book Center’s founder and President, Aaron Lansky, was aired in June 2006 on Studio J, B’nai B’rith’s Jewish news and public affairs program.

Nancy Sherman on WFCR. (9 minutes, MP3, 2.02 MB)
Susan Kaplan interviews Nancy Sherman about Yizkor books for WFCR, the NPR station in Amherst, MA.

Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oneg Shabes archive. (73 minutes, MP3, 17.26 MB)
Samuel Kassow on history as a form of cultural resistance in the Warsaw ghetto. Presented at the National Yiddish Book Center as the 2003 Melinda Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture. Please see the accompanying article "A Stone Under History's Wheel" in the Fall 2003 issue of Pakn Treger.

  STORIES IN ENGLISH  

The following stories are taken from Jewish Short Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond, a 10 CD set available from our store at GreatJewishBooks.com.

On Account of a Hat by Sholem Aleichem. (21 minutes, MP3, 4.9 MB)
If Not Higher by I.L. Peretz. (9 minutes, MP3, 2 MB)
Goodbye and Good Luck by Grace Paley. (25 minutes, MP3, 5.83 MB)

  CHILDREN'S STORIES  

The following stories are taken from The Best Jewish Children's Stories: "When the Beginning Began" and other favorites, a 2 CD set available from our store at GreatJewishBooks.com.

What Hershel's Father Did by Eric Kimmel. (6 minutes, MP3, 1.48 MB)
God Battles the Queen of the Waters by Julius Lester. (8 minutes, MP3, 1.85 MB)

  STORIES IN YIDDISH  

"Pour Out Thy Wrath" by L. Shapiro. (23 minutes, MP3, 5.5 MB)
Short story. The Yiddish text and English translation appear in the Fall 2004 issue of Pakn Treger.

Shmuglers by Ozer Varshavski. (26 minutes, MP3, 6.2 MB)
Selections from the novel. The Yiddish text and English translation appear in the Spring 2004 issue of Pakn Treger.

Zelmenyaner by Moshe Kulbak. (14 minutes, MP3, 3.27 MB)
Selections from Kulbak's novel. The Yiddish text and English translation appear in the Fall 2003 issue of Pakn Treger.

Beryl Izyk by Sholem Aleichem. Translated by Curt Leviant. (16 minutes, MP3, 6.8 MB)
The Yiddish text and English translation appear in the Fall 2005 issue of Pakn Treger.

Everyday Jews by Yehoshue Perl. (12 minutes, MP3, 10.96 MB)
The Yiddish text and English translation appear in the Spring 2006 issue of Pakn Treger.

The National Yiddish Book Center holds copyright to all titles in our Audio Library. Re-recording, duplication or broadcast are prohibited without permission.