Yiddish Audiobooks | Language Instruction

Beginner's Yiddish: The Essential Course

Our audio course, 'Beginner's Yiddish: The Essential Course,' is designed to teach you the basics of the Yiddish language in just six sessions. Whether you're a complete beginner or have some prior knowledge, this course will provide you with the tools you need to understand and pronounce common words and phrases. Each session builds upon the previous one, starting with the basics of Yiddish vocabulary. You'll learn essential words and phrases that will help you navigate everyday conversations and situations. As you progress through the course, you'll learn how to understand and pronounce Yiddish words more accurately. Throughout the course, you'll be provided with opportunities to help reinforce what you've learned. By the end of the six session course, you'll have a solid foundation in the Yiddish language and the confidence to communicate with others in Yiddish. Whether you're planning to travel to a Yiddish-speaking country, want to connect with the Yiddish-speaking community, or simply want to learn a new language, this course is the perfect place to start.

Moshe Stein (Author), Moshe Stein (Narrator)

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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

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, a language without a country, 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 New York City's Lower East Side and follows Yiddish as it moves into Hollywood, Broadway, literature, politics, and resistance. We take deep dives into cuisine, language, popular culture, and even Yiddish in the other Americas, including Canada, Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia. The book presents a bountiful menu of genres: essays, memoir, song, letters, poems, recipes, cartoons, conversations, and much more. Authors include Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer and luminaries such as Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick, Chaim Grade, Michael Chabon, Abraham Cahan, Sophie Tucker, Blume Lempel, Irving Howe, Art Spiegelman, Alfred Kazin, Harvey Pekar, Ben Katchor, Paula Vogel, and Liana Finck.

Ilan Stavans (editor), Josh Lambert (editor) (Author), Steven Jay Cohen (Narrator)

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Yiddish Crash Course

The Original 30-Minute Crash Course! Speak Yiddish in just one short week! LANGUAGE/30™ zeroes in on the most essential phrases for day-to-day communication. Whether you are a vacationer, a business traveler, a student, or just need a refresher course, you’ll learn what you need to know in just three 30-minute sessions a day. Developed for U.S. Government personnel, this accelerated learning method will have you conversing after just a few easy 30-minute lessons! These widely acclaimed courses have yielded proven results for over 60 years. - Includes greetings, personal needs, transportation, business, health and emergency terms, and more! - Covers grammar, pronunciation, social customs, vocabulary, and foreign scripts - Native voices with authentic pronunciation - Digitally remastered, revised, and updated

Language/30 (Author), Language/30 (Narrator)

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The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated

More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published 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 bestseller for three decades.Rosten described his book as a relaxed lexicon of Yiddish, Hebrew, and Yinglish words often encountered in English, plus dozens that ought to be, with serendipitous excursions into Jewish humor, habits, holidays, history, religion, ceremonies, folklore, and cuisine the whole generously garnished with stories, anecdotes, epigrams, Talmudic quotations, folk sayings, and jokes. To this day, it is considered the seminal work on Yiddish in America a true classic and a staple in the libraries of Jews and non-Jews alike. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, The New Joys of Yiddish brings Leo Rosten's masterful work up to date. Revised for the first time by Lawrence Bush in close consultation with Rosten's daughters, it retains the spirit of the original with its wonderful jokes, tidbits of cultural history, Talmudic and Biblical references, and tips on pronunciation and enhances it with hundreds of new entries, thoughtful commentary on how Yiddish has evolved over the years, and an invaluable new English-to-Yiddish index. In addition, The New Joys of Yiddish includes wondrous and amusing illustrations by renowned artist R.O. Blechman.From the Hardcover edition.

Leo Calvin Rosten, Leo Rosten (Author), A Full Cast (Narrator)

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