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Babel' in Context : A Study in Cultural Identity /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sicher, Efraim (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2016]
Series:Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Note on References and Translations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 / Isaak Babelʹ: A Brief Life
  • 2 / Reference and Interference
  • 3 / Babelʹ, Bialik, and Others
  • 4 / Midrash and History: A Key to the Babelesque Imagination
  • 5 / A Russian Maupassant
  • 6 / Babelʹ's Civil War
  • 7 / A Voyeur on a Collective Farm
  • Bibliography of Works by Babelʹ and Recommended Reading
  • Notes
  • Index