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Tag: Ukrainian Literature
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Babel’s Transcendent Mistakes
Jake Marmer
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Jewish Review of Books
· 7 Jan 2018
The essay reflects on the author’s childhood discovery of Isaac Babel's works, which became the first Jewish language they could relate to, spurring thoughts on identity and language.