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January 23, 2018

Isaac Babel: Anthropologist of the Human Soul and of Human Cruelty

“Can it be that ours is the century in which the Jews perish?”

Reviewing the recent translations of Isaac Babel’s work by Val Vinkour and Boris Drayluk, Gary Saul Morson explains the unique genius of the Soviet Jewish writer who was executed at Stalin’s orders in 1940 at the age of forty-five:

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January 23, 2018

  1. Putting Aside the Pious Lies about the Israel-Palestinian Conflict

    The U.S. shouldn’t be neutral.

  2. India Has Finally Acknowledged That Israel Is a Friend Worth Having

    What Muslim backlash?

  3. Senate Democrats Go Soft on Anti-Semitism

    It’s all right to say you’re against anti-Semitism, but unacceptable to act too vigorously against it.

  4. Isaac Babel: Anthropologist of the Human Soul and of Human Cruelty

    “Can it be that ours is the century in which the Jews perish?”

  5. Maimonides and the Jews of Yemen

    A false messiah and an enduring legacy.