The legacy of Isaac Babel Russias Jewish Hemingway is dissected in a new play

CHICAGO (JTA) — All writers strive for a good story. How far they will go to find it depends on their ambition, their wherewithal and their sanity. Isaac Babel, a Russian-Jewish writer who came from a relatively stable, privileged background in Odesa in the late 1800s, would go to war… Read More