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Reading the Corpus

In A Corpus, Not a Canon

Read by Wen-Chin Ouyang, Chip Rossetti, Philip Kennedy, Julia Bray, Robert Irwin and Mohamed-Salah Omri


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 Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Read by Chip


Washington Irving


The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America’s colo…

American Indian Fairy Tales

Read by Chip


William Trowbridge Larned


With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by…

Sarrasine

Read by Chip


Honoré de Balzac


Published by Honoré de Balzac in the tempestuous year of 1830, the tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor’s s…

War Is Kind (Collection)

Read by Chip


Stephen Crane


Published in 1899, just a year before his death, War Is Kind by Stephen Crane evokes again the dark imagery of war which made his fortune in…

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (version 3)

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Booker T. Washington


Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington, describing his personal path up from the position of a slave…

Putting the Most Into Life

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Booker T. Washington


The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…

Oak and Ivy

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Paul Laurence Dunbar


"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…

Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories

Read by Philip Martin


Cal Stewart


A collection of comedic short stories from the perspective of an old country man. (Summary by Philip Martin)

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…

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…