Polish encounters, Russian identity

Table of Contents: “…At home with Pani Eliza : Isaac Babel and his Polish encounters /…”
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In a maelstrom : the history of Russian-Jewish prose (1860-1940) by Hetényi, Zsuzsa

Table of Contents: “…At Grandmother's" -- Catalogue and images, images and parataxis, parataxis and tolerance -- "The story of my dovecot" -- Michael Gold and Isaac Babel -- Henry Roth and Isaac Babel -- Overstatement, exaggeration--fantasy--creativity ("First love" and "In the basement") -- Summary.…”
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In a maelstrom : the history of Russian-Jewish prose (1860-1940) by Hetényi, Zsuzsa

Table of Contents: “…At Grandmother's" -- Catalogue and images, images and parataxis, parataxis and tolerance -- "The story of my dovecot" -- Michael Gold and Isaac Babel -- Henry Roth and Isaac Babel -- Overstatement, exaggeration--fantasy--creativity ("First love" and "In the basement") -- Summary.…”
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Why Trilling matters by Kirsch, Adam, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…-- "A professor and a man and a writer" -- Varieties of liberal imagination -- Isaac Babel and the rabbis -- A syllabus of terrors -- "Howl" and the visionary gleam -- The affirming self -- The reader as hero.…”
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50 writers : an anthology of 20th century Russian short stories

Table of Contents: “…Once Upon a Time / Leonid Andreyev -- The Invoker of the Beast / Fyodor Sologub -- Gambrinus / Aleksandr Kuprin -- The Little Devil / Aleksei Remizov -- Thus Life Passes / Elena Guro -- Four People / Arkady Averchenko -- Scenes from the Life of the Worker Pantelei Grymzin / Arkady Averchenko -- Black Iris / Nadezhda Teffi -- The Red Crown / Mikhail Bulgakov -- Black Magic / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- The Female Fish / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- Gedali / Isaac Babel -- The Rabbi / Isaac Babel -- The Rabbi's Son / Isaac Babel -- Family Man / Mikhail Sholokhov -- Outgoing Paper No 27 / Lev Lunts -- The Gardener of the Emir of Bukhara / Vsevolod Ivanov -- The Viper / Aleksei Tolstoy -- The Flood / Evgeny Zamyatin -- Doubting Makar / Andrei Platonov -- Blue Notebook Number 10 / Daniil Kharms -- Old Women Tumbling Out / Daniil Kharms -- Kushakov the Carpenter / Daniil Kharms -- A Dream / Daniil Kharms -- The Start of a Very Nice Summer Day / Daniil Kharms -- The Lynching / Daniil Kharms -- Lake, Cloud, Tower / Vladimir Nabokov -- The Smoky Glass Goblet / Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky -- Tanya / Ivan Bunin -- The Tenants / Andrei Sinyavsky -- Eulogy / Varlam Shalamov -- The House with a Turret / Fridrikh Gorenshtein -- "Victory" / Vasily Aksyonov -- Hands / Yuli Daniel -- A German in Felt Boots / Konstantin Vorobyov -- My Uncle of the Highest Principles / Fazil Iskander -- Chudik / Vasily Shukshin -- I Believe! …”
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Finding Babel

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The inveterate dreamer : essays and conversations on Jewish culture by Stavans, Ilan

Table of Contents: “…Yehoshua -- Stones and Ideas: David Hare's Via Dolorosa -- Alberto Gerchunoff's Jewish Gauchos -- Nathan Englander -- Danilo Kis in Buenos Aires -- Harold Bloom: A Microprofile -- On Moacyr Scliar -- Elias Canetti: Sephardic Master -- Hotel Bolivia -- On Lionel Trilling -- Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist -- Isaac Babel: Tales of Ambivalence -- Marcos Aguinis: The Inveterate Dreamer -- Peter Nadas: The End of a Family Story -- Kafka's Last Letter: A Heaven without Crows -- Arthur Schnitzler and Stanley Kubrick -- Borges's Jewish "Yo" -- The Verbal Quest -- Museum Fever -- David Roskies's Shtetl -- The Name -- Walter Benjamin: The Demon of Inspiration -- Isaac Goldemberg's Mixed Blood -- pt. 3. …”
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No joke : making Jewish humor by Wisse, Ruth R.

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Describe the Night by Joseph, Rajiv

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No joke : making Jewish humor by Wisse, Ruth R.

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The Zelmenyaners : a family saga by Kulbak, Moshe, 1896-1940

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From symbolism to socialist realism : a reader by Masing-Delic, I. (Irene)

Table of Contents: “…The Stalinist Period and World War II -- -- -- Memoirs -- -- "1930 : How Meierkhol'd Put on My Play," from A Book of Farewell / Iurii Olesha -- From The Memoirs of Ivanov-Razumnik / Ivanov-Razumnik -- From At His Side : The Last Years of Isaac Babel / Antonina Prozhkova -- -- Cultural Contexts -- -- "The Mystery and the Magic of Stalin's Power," from Soviet Civilization : A Cultural History / Andrei Siniavskii -- "The Tower of Babel Undone in a Soviet Pentecost : A Linguistic Myth of the First Five-Year Plan," from Slavic and East European Journal / Daniel E. …”
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