The Odessa Tales

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Title The Odessa Tales

Book cover
Author Isaac Babel
Original title Одесские рассказы
Country Russia
Language Russian
Genre(s) Short story collection
Publisher
Released
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)

The Odessa Tales is a collection of short stories by Isaac Babel, situated in Odessa in the last days of the Russian empire and the Russian Revolution. They deal primarily with a group of jewish thugs that live in the Moldavanka, a ghetto of Odessa. Their leader is Benya Krik.

The short stories were turned into the movie Benya Krik in 1926 by Vladimir Vilner.

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