The Russian writer Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel (1894-1941) was a master of the short story. His compact, vivid stories of Jewish life in the Odessa of his childhood and of the Russian Revolution are wri...
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Isaak Babel is widely recognized today as a leading twentieth-century short-story writer and the undisputed master of the genre in the Soviet period. By the mid 1920s he had already achieved considera...
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Odessa (dpa) - Benya Krik, the story goes, was a gangster so
smooth that when a lackey of his accidentally killed an innocent man,
Krik arranged a show funeral for all Odess...
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The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss. W.W. Norton, 252 pages, $23.95.There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good i...
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James Carroll claims to have left the priesthood in the early 1970’s. House of War suggests otherwise. This history of the Pentagon is Mr. Carroll’s Stations of the Cross, performed in ...
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James Carroll claims to have left the priesthood in the early 1970’s. House of War suggests otherwise. This history of the Pentagon is Mr. Carroll’s Stations of the Cross, performed in ...
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Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or ...
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Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or ...
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Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel
Isaak (Emmanuilovich) Babel
NEWS FEATURE: Odessa's dwindling Jews rediscover their history
