Omri Lernau
מעמק עכור Out of a Gloomy Valley
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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 …
בחורף In Winter
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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 …
מכאן ומשם From Here and There
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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, …
מסעות בנימין השלישי The Wanderings of Benjamin III
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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…
ספר הקבצנים Fishke the Lame (The Book of Beggars)
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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…
מדינת היהודים (The Jewish State)
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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'…
על פרשת דרכים At the Crossroads (Selected Essays)
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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"…
אסופת מסות ומאמרים Selection of Essays and Articles
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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…
בעמק הבכא The Wishing-Ring
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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…
אהבת ציון Love of Zion
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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…
עולה (Injustice), with excerpt from The Escaping Club
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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…
בגנים In the Gardens
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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…
אצל Etsel
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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 …
מרים Miriam
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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…
סיפורים קצרים Short Stories
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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…
שכול וכשלון Breakdown and Bereavement
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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…
?לאן (Whither?)
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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…
שני ימים ולילה אחד בבית מלון אורחים (Two Days and One Night in a Hotel)
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יהודה לייב גורדון Judah Leib Gordon
Judah Leib Gordon was born to well-to-do Jewish parents who owned a hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania. He took a leading part in the modern reviva…