The title page and frontispiece of a 1912 printing of Sholem-Aleykhem's  works.

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Ayzik-Meyer Dik Der yoyred
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Mendele Moykher-Sforim Mayn letste nesie
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Mendele Mokher-Sfarim
Hebrew translation by Shalom Luria		 Nesiati haakhrona
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Mendele Moykher-Sforim Der khilef
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Y.-L. Perets Der ziveg
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Y.-L. Perets Oyb nisht nokh hekher
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Y.-L. Perets Bontshe Shvayg
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Y.-L. Perets Sholem bayis
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Y.-L. Perets Zibn gute yor
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Sholem- Aleykhem Baym dokter
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Sholem- Aleykhem Doktoyrim
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Sholem- Aleykhem Dreyfus in kasrilevke
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Sholem- Aleykhem Kidalto vekidashto
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Sholem- Aleykhem Nakhes fun kinder
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Sholem- Aleykhem Oysgetreyslt
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Avrom Reyzn Der yid vos hot khorev gemakht dem templ
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Sholem Ash A shtiler gortn
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Sholem Ash A dorf-tsadik
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Dovid Bergelson Bay nakht
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Itsik Manger Di mayses fun hershl zumervint

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Yitskhok Bashevis  Tayves
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© Israel Zamir
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Yitskhok Bashevis  Di nodl
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Leyb Rashkin Di mentshn fun godlbozhets
(First part of chapter one)
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Yoysef Tunkel
(Der tunkeler)		 Nakhes fun kinder – a monolog

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Yoysef Tunkel
(Der tunkeler)		 A teater fun kaptsonim

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Yoysef Tunkel
(Der tunkeler)		 Di lamdonishe beratungen

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Yitskhok Bashevis  Far vos di gendz hobn geshrign

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Portraits: Noente Geshtaltn (Familar Figures) by Itsik Manger
Itsik Manger Shloyme Etinger

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Itsik Manger Ayzik-Meyer Dik

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Itsik Manger Yankev Morgenshtern

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Itsik Manger Mark Markovitsh Varshavski

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מען איז זיך מוחל פֿון שלום-עליכם
Men iz zikh moykhl fun Sholem-Aleykhem
שלום-עליכם
Sholem-Aleykhem		 רב משה-װעלװל בעל-עגלה
Reb Moyshe-Velvl Balegole

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שלום-עליכם
Sholem-Aleykhem		 רפֿאל בעל-משגיח
Refoel Bal-Mashgiekh

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שלום-עליכם
Sholem-Aleykhem		 געצי גובערנאַטאָר
Getsi Gubernator

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שלום-עליכם
Sholem-Aleykhem		 זיסל דער יורד
Zisl der Yoyred

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Sara Blacher-Retter

Sara Blacher-Retter was born in Vilna and emigrated to Palestine in 1935. She trained to be a nurse and served as one, principally in the Workers' Health Fund, the health service of the labor movement, until her retirement in 1977. Since that time she has been active in several cultural spheres, including singing in a choir and acting and reciting in both Hebrew and Yiddish. In the past decade in particular she has devoted much of her time and energy to entertaining audiences in Haifa retirement homes by reading the beloved stories and feuilletons of classic Yiddish authors.

 
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