Jewish short stories from Eastern Europe and beyond a co-production of the National Yiddish Book Center and radio station KCRW Santa Monica.

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On account of a hat / Sholom Aleichem ; read by Peter Riegert -- Bontshe the silent / I.L. Peretz ; read by Harold Gould -- Gedali / Isaac Babel ; read by Ron Rifkin -- The king / Isaac Babel ; read by Jeff Goldblum -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; read by Eli Wallach -- My first goose / Isaac Babel ; read by Alan Rosenberg -- A stranger / Israel Joshua Singer ; read by Elliott Gould -- The loudest voice / Grace Paley ; read by Rhea Perlman -- Three gifts / I.L. Peretz ; read by Joanna Gleason -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick ; read by Claire Bloom -- The fable of the goat / S.Y. Agnon ; read by Joseph Gordon Levitt -- The golem / I.L. Peretz ; read by Carol Kane -- A meal for the poor / Mordecai Spector ; read by Alan King -- Kola Street / Sholem Asch ; read by Ron Leibman -- The place / Edith Konecky ; read by Julie Kavner -- Back from the draft / Sholom Aleichem ; read by Jerry Stiller -- The rabbi's son / Isaac Babel ; read by Ron Rifkin --The man who slept through the end of the world / Moishe Nadir ; read by Mayim Bialik -- Chava / Sholom Aleichem ; read by Walter Matthau -- My father sits in the dark / Jerome Weidman ; read by Peter Friedman -- In the mail coach / I.L. Peretz ; read by Leonard Nimoy -- The search / Sholom Aleichem ; read by Jerry Stiller -- Matza for the rich / Abraham Reisen ; read by Fyvush Finkel -- If not higher / I.L. Peretz ; read by Isaiah Sheffer -- The cafeteria / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; read by David Margulies -- The last kopeck / Shimon Frug ; read by David Paymer -- A ghetto dog / Isaiah Spiegel ; read by Lauren Bacall -- Tuition for the rebbe / Abraham Reisen ; read by Peter Riegert -- Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth ; read by Elliott Gould -- Munie the bird dealer / Moishe Kulbak ; read by Alan Alda -- Goodbye and good luck / Grace Paley ; read by Rhea Perlman.

Stories read by: Alan Alda, Lauren Bacall, Mayim Bialik, Claire Bloom, Fyfush Finkel, Peter Friedman, Joanna Gleason, Jeff Goldblum, Elliott Gould, Harold Gould, Carol Kane, Julie Kavner, Alan King, Ron Leibman, Joseph Gordon Levitt, David Margulies, Walter Matthau, Leonard Nimoy, David Paymer, Rhea Pearlman, Peter Riegert, Ron Rifkin, Alan Rosenberg, Isaiah Sheffer, Jerry Stiller, Eli Wallach.