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April 7, 2016

Ode to Odessa

A humorous and poignant picture of the author's hometown.

In a humorous and poignant picture of his hometown, newly translated by Val Vinokur, the celebrated Soviet Jewish author Isaac Babel, born in 1894 and executed in 1940 as a victim of one of Stalin's purges, begins thus:

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