The Speech Machine as a Language Teacher, six records - Hebrew Spoken Here, according to the book "Hebrew for Olim", by Rabbi Dr. Emil Cohen, edited by Asher [Oscar] Plevner. Stuttgart: Otto Sperling, [1934].
"The Speech Machine as a Language Teacher", a teaching set recorded and produced as part of the revival of Jewish education in Germany after the rising to power of the Nazi Party. Initiator of the project, Asher Plevner, was impressed by the popular teaching booklet "Ivrit LeOlim" by the scholar and author Rabbi Emil Cohen, and he turned to the owner of a records manufacturing company, Otto Sperling, who at the time produced records for learning languages. Sperling agreed to produce the records and in May 1934 Asher Plevner, his brother Dov and his sister Helena, met in the studio of "Avner" company and recorded the Hebrew talks for the study of the language.
The set includes: six records; six transcripts of the talks in Hebrew; six accompanying study booklets for each of the records with the talks in phonetic transcript in Latin characters and the meaning in German; index card for study and repetition, helping to read the lines of the transcript or of the translation, alternately.
Enclosed is a book concerning this study set: "The Speech Machine as a Language Teacher: Hebrew Spoken Here, Hebrew Voices from Nazi Germany: A Testimony on Spoken Hebrew and Jewish Life in Palestine during the British Mandate". (Hebrew); (editor: Shlomo Izre’el), published by Tel Aviv University, 2012.
Records: diameter 25 cm. Transcript booklet: 23 cm. Study booklets: 22.5 cm. Card: 13 cm. Original cardboard case, 28X28 cm. Very good overall condition. Creases to paper sleeves of records.