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 ...

Antonina Pirozhkova, who was the common-law widow of Russian literary giant Isaac Babel and wrote a well-received memoir that provided a rare glimpse of the persecuted writer’s final years in the ...

There were three stories on stage the night I attended “Isaac Babel and the Gangster King.” The musical introduces the audience to Babel, a great Russian-Jewish writer of the first half of the 20th ...

Michele talks with Nathalie Babel Brown, daughter of the Russian short-story writer Isaac Babel about her father's life and work. Isaac Babel is the highly-regarded author of stories that document ...

During a script reading at the Jewish Museum London on October 24, two writers with mortality on their minds came face to face: the bushy-eyebrowed 83-year-old East End poet and kitchen sink dramatist ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best from Adam O'Neal, Mary O'Grady, Joe Sternberg and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Ukrainians and Jews were trapped in a fateful ...

3 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 4 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities Isaac Babel and The Black Sea will premiere February 9th, running through March 11th, ...

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We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Isaac Babel news every morning. When the Soviet secret police came for Isaac Babel in the early morning of May 15 1939, he can have had ...

Editor’s note: The holidays always leave us preoccupied with family concerns. So today we look back at “Isaac Babel: The Lonely Years, 1925-1939,” an autobiographical work that includes a series of ...

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 ...