Search Results

Other Worlding

In Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT)

Read by Peter Hitchcock, Katrin Kohl, Mohamed-Salah Omri and Jane Hiddleston


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Labour Movement and the Culture of Protest: A Long View of Close Ties

In The Tunisian Revolution: Origins, Course and Aftermath

Read by Mohamed-Salah Omri


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Grey Woman

Read by Jane Greensmith


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


A "Bluebeard" story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill he…

Stories from the History of Rome

Read by Melissa Jane


Emily Beesly


Mrs. Emily Beesly, the writer of this brilliant narrative, lived in an era of nothing but fairy tales and "the stories of nursery life&…

The Hawaiian Archipelago

Read by Jane Bennett


Isabella L. Bird


Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. - Summary by Isabella Bird

Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV

Read by Jane Bennett


Frantz Funck-Brentano


The court of French King Louis XIV was not a safe place to be. It was filled with plots and intrigues, leaving observers and commentators wi…

מדינת היהודים (The Jewish State)

Read by Omri Lernau


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'…

סיפורים קצרים Short Stories

Read by Omri Lernau


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…

על פרשת דרכים At the Crossroads (Selected Essays)

Read by Omri Lernau


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"…

בעמק הבכא The Wishing-Ring

Read by Omri Lernau


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…

ספר הקבצנים Fishke the Lame (The Book of Beggars)

Read by Omri Lernau


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…

אהבת ציון Love of Zion

Read by Omri Lernau


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…

מסעות בנימין השלישי The Wanderings of Benjamin III

Read by Omri Lernau


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…

אסופת מסות ומאמרים Selection of Essays and Articles

Read by Omri Lernau


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…

בחורף In Winter

Read by Omri Lernau


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 …

עולה (Injustice), with excerpt from The Escaping Club

Read by Omri Lernau


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…

מעמק עכור Out of a Gloomy Valley

Read by Omri Lernau


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 …

בגנים In the Gardens

Read by Omri Lernau


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…