Isaac Babel

Preface Stories East and West brings together twenty short stories from the political East and West, They are organized according to similarity of theme, but readers will quickly perceive many points of contrast between them. I think that certain emphases, which are especially apparent to...

IntroductionMost of the stories in this collection are modem; a few are ancient. They were written in Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Russian and English, yet all are, to a discerning eye, very clearly Jewish. The oldest of ?lem, Tobit, is pious and moral but its comedy and pathos have a familiar and...