Narration written by Ruth Seymour and Johanna Cooper ; directed by Jeremy Kagan ...[et al.] ; original music composed and arranged by Yale Strom
disc 1. A friend of Kafka / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; read by Theodore Bike -- How it was done in Odessa / Isaac Babel ; read by Edward Asner -- disc 2. Hodel / Sholom Aleichem ; read by Richard Dreyfus -- (from) I love Gootie / Max Apple ; read by Arye Gross -- disc 3. (from) Herzog / Saul Bellow ; read by Charlton Heston -- The adventures of Hershel Summerwind / Itzik Manger ; read by Joanna Gleason -- disc 4. Dreyfus in Kassrilevke / Sholom Aleichem ; read by Leonard Nimoy -- King Solomon / Isaac Rosenfeld ; read by William Shatner -- disc 5. The silver crown / Bernard Malamud ; read by Adam Arkin -- An afternoon on the grass / Ida Fink ; read by Christina Pickles -- disc 6. A wedding in Brownsville / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; read by Ron Rifkin -- Mysteries of the cabala / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; read by Theodore Bikel -- disc 7. Joy beyond measure / I.L. Peretz ; read by Theodore Bikel -- The calf / Mendele Mocher Sforim ; read by Harold Gould -- disc 8. The stunt / Mordechai Strigler ; read by Rene Auberjonois -- The recluse / Abraham Reisen ; read by Hector Elizondo -- disc 9. A letter to Harvey Milk / Leslea Newman ; read by Carl Reiner -- The awakening / Isaac Babel ; read by Richard Benjamin -- disc 10. I always wanted you to admire my fasting, or, Looking at Kafka / Philip Roth ; read by Elliott Gould -- Repentance / Israel Joshua Singer ; read by Theodore Bikel -- disc 11. (from) Uncle Moses / Sholem Asch ; read by Ron Leibman -- We go on strike / Sholon Aleichem ; read by Joseph Gordon-Levitt -- disc 12. L'Olam and white shell woman / Joanne Greenberg ; read by Julie Kavner -- Karl Yandel / Isaac Babel ; read by Max Wright -- disc 13. (from) The romance reader / Pearl Abraham ; read by Annie Meisels -- The writer in the family / E.L. Doctorow ; read by Lawrence Pressman -- disc 14. The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud ; read by Eliott Gould -- Dalfunka, where the rich live forever / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; Theodore Bikel -- disc 15. Bloodshed / Cynthia Ozick ; read by Isaiah Sheffer -- Death of Tsaritsa / Ida Fink ; read by Christina Pickles -- disc 16. Shprintse / Sholom Aleichem ; read by Leonard Nimoy -- My brother Eli's drink / Sholom Aleichem ; read by Joseph Gordon Levitt -- disc 17. Julia / Ida Fink ; read by JoBeth Williams -- Bryna's Mendl / I.L. Peretz ; read by Jerry Stiller --Shprintse / Sholom Aleichem ; read by Leonard Nimoy -- My brother Eli's drink / Sholom Aleichem ; read by Joseph Gordon-Levitt -- disc 18. The four questions / Allegra Goodman ; read by Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grode -- (from) I love Gootie / Max Apple ; read by Arye Gross