Summary
In the years since the fund was created, it has been used to sponsor and support Yiddish concerts and theatre productions, a Yiddish radio program and weekly newspaper column, a Yiddish language course at the University of Manitoba and even a four-week Festival of Yiddish Culture and Entertainment.
These audio books, recorded on 240 separate digitally remastered CDs, represent 30 of the greatest works of Yiddish literature. They include both novels and short stories, among them the fiction of I.B. Singer, Sholem Asch, Mendele Moykher Sforim, the first known Yiddish novelist, and I.L. Peretz, the namesake of Winnipeg's vanished Yiddish day school."The audio books are of excellent quality," says Lawrie Cherniack, chair of the Dos Yiddish Vinkel subcommittee. "The ones I've listened to have very nice Yiddish. They are easily understood and the Yiddish is spoken in a very conversational tone. "See the full content of this document
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Yiddish Audio Books Come to Local Library
WHEN the I.L. Peretz Folk School on Jefferson Avenue closed its doors for the final time back in the early 1990s, many Winnipeg Jews feared that the city's long and dist...
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