Babel' in Context

Efraim Sicher

earliest edition we have, 2012 Academic Studies Press, 2024 326 pages

Isaak Babel (1894?1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel was?an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centers of east European Jewish culture and all his life loved Yiddish and the stories of Sholom Aleichem.This is the first book in English to study the intertextua...

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Babel' in Context edition · 2024 · Academic Studies Press · 326 pages · 9798887196565
Babel' in Context edition · 2012 · Academic Studies Press · 312 pages · 9781306156103
Babel' in Context edition · 2012 · Academic Studies Press · 312 pages · 9781618111456
Babel' in Context edition · Academic Studies Press · 9781618118530

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