草枕 (Kusamakura)
漱石の熊本時代の体験を元にした小説。主人公の画家は峠を歩いて越えて、山中のひなびた温泉、那古井を訪ねる。そこには温泉宿がひとつあり、客は主人公だけであった。非人情の旅である。宿のお嬢さん、那美さんに色々と驚かされる。最後は那美さんらと共に、川舟に乗って、那美さんのいとこの久一さんの出征の見送りに、駅まで行く。そして、探し求めた画になる那美さんの表情を見つける。

A painter walks to a hot spring in mountains. He meets an attractive lady there.
שכול וכשלון Breakdown and Bereavement
Breakdown and Bereavement, first published in 1920, is the story of a young Jewish immigrant in Palestine in the early 20th century. Like many of Yosef Haim Brenner's protagonists, Hefetz finds that pioneer life under Ottoman rule is a difficult and depressing path to a Zionist homeland. Brenner, himself a Russian-born immigrant to Palestine, was one of the first and most important authors of modern Hebrew literature. He was killed during the Jaffa riots of 1921.

אהבת ציון Love of Zion
Abraham Mapu was born in 1808 near Kaunas, today in Lithuania. He worked as a teacher and later joined the Jewish enlightenment movement. In 1853 he published his first book, Love of Zion, which has been regarded as the first secular novel written in biblical Hebrew. It takes place at the time of the First Temple covering love stories of Yoram, his wives and his children. The book had a profound influence on Jewish youth in Eastern Europe at the time of the emergent Zionist movement.
סיפורים קצרים Short Stories
This recording is in Hebrew.

Stories included:
רבי דב (Rabbi Dov)
שני תרנגולים (Two Cocks)
פסח שנשבת (Pesach Celebration Spoiled)
יוסל הגנן (Yosel the Gardener)
ספר הכפרות (Book of Atonement)
חברבר החצרוני (The Dog Havarbar)
שימלה (Shimele)
פסח מוקדם (Early Pesach)
הפילוסוף (The Philosopher)
האשכנזי (The German Jew)
האוצר (The Treasure)
בשביל צנון אחד (For One Radish)
עלילת דם (Blood Libel)

Sholem Aleichem was the pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, a leading Yiddish author and playwright. Sholem Aleichem was born into a Hasidic family in Pereyaslav and grew up in the nearby shtetl of Voronko, in...
?לאן (Whither?)
Mordecai Ze’ev Feierberg was a Jewish Hebrew writer in Russia. He was attracted to enlightenment and to medieval Hebrew poetry. Feierberg was one of the announcers of symbolism in the Hebrew literature. He published short stories in the Hebrew newspapers, but his main work was the novel “Whither?” that was published shortly after his death. It follows the vacillations of a young man concerning faith, enlightenment, people and destiny. His answer to the question “Whither?” was the land of Israel. This work became central to Zionist thought. Feierberg died young of tuberculosis. (Translated from Hebrew Wikipedia by Omri Lernau)

Reis naar de Maan in 28 Dagen en 12 Uren
Wat doet een Amerikaan, als de Burgeroorlog is afgelopen en hij daarvoor geen kanonnen meer kan maken? Hij maakt een kanon om de maan te beschieten. Dit humoristische sciencefictionverhaal van Jules Verne was een van de eerste in het genre en gaf en passant een overzicht van de kennis van de astronomie rond 1870. (Bart de Leeuw)
Παραμύθι χωρίς όνομα (Tale Without Name)
Το Βασίλειο των Μοιρολατρών πέφτει σε παρακμή καθώς ο Βασιλιάς Αστόχαστος ζητάει μόνο την καλοπέραση και δεν φροντίζει για την ευημερία της χώρας του. Πολύς κόσμος φεύγει και το βασίλειο ερημώνει και φτωχαίνει. Το βασιλόπουλο αηδιασμένο από την κατάσταση κινεί να φύγει και αυτό αλλά μια σειρά από γεγονότα ξυπνούν μέσα του την ελπίδα και την αποφασιστικότητα. Με την βοήθεια της αδελφής του και μερικών πιστών συντρόφων καταφέρνει να σώσει το βασίλειό του από την καταστροφή και να το ξαναφέρει σε ανάπτυξη!

The Kingdom of Moirolatres (Fatalists) falls into decay as the King Astochastos (Thoughtless) cares only for his own comfort and neglects the welfare of his country. Many people l...
Schippersjongen
Verhaal over het beleg en ontzet van Leiden 1573 - 1574.

Willem Tell
Het wereld beroemde verhaal van Willem Tell door Pieter Louwerse opnieuw verteld.

Ali Baba en de veertig roovers
Ali Baba vindt een schat van roovers en neemt een deel van de schat weg. Uiteraard willen de roovers wraak nemen.