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Isaac Babel and Paul Berger – Odessa!

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Published: 9 April 2016

Last updated: 4 March 2024

‘Odessa’ by Isaac Babel - translated by Val Vinokur - The Odessa Review 24.02.16
‘Odessa,’ the reader will finally say, ‘is a city like any other city, and you are just exceedingly biased.’ All right, so I’m biased, it’s true, maybe even exceedingly so, but parole d’honneur, there is something to it. And a truly human being will sense this something…

Odessa still throbs with Jewish life – Paul Berger - The Forward 21.05.2012
Though far fewer in number now, Jews are still a force in Odessa … Whether by design or by chance, I met young Jews and old Jews, rich Jews and poor Jews, intellectuals and businessmen, as rich a mix of characters as in any of the Odessa Tales told by one of the city’s favorite Jewish sons, Isaac Babel.
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