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Verhalen uit Odessa by Isaac Babel6/11/2023 ![]() The literary scene here is small and underground, so we take what we can Only here, in freewheeling Odessa, could a Jew become “a lion … a tiger … a cat … can spend the night with a Russian woman”. A woman in a sundress reads from Odessa Tales, short stories in which Babel reimagines the city as a criminal hub filled with flamboyant gangster Jews. Other languages fill the air – Norwegian, Mongolian, French, Kazakh. One Ukrainian woman reads passages from Babel’s Red Cavalry in Japanese, a book describing the Polish-Soviet war of 1920 nearby a man reads the same book in Russian. Isaac Babel – Jewish chronicler of Odessa and victim of Josef Stalin’s purges – takes centre stage. ![]() ![]() Odessa Is Read”, is celebrating this complex Black Sea city’s vibrant literary past. ![]()
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