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• This article is based on unpublished material from doctoral research undertaken in Soviet archives and at St Antony's College, Oxford, and supported by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. New York. As only the issue of Babel's place in Soviet Jewish culture in the 1920s is tackled here, the reader interested in the image of the Jew and Jewish writers in Soviet literature is referred to Maurice Friedberg's ‘Jewish themes in Soviet Russian literature’ and ‘Jewish contributions to Soviet literature’, in L. Kochan (ed.). The Jews in Soviet Russia since 1917 (3rd ed., Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1978). 197–216 and 217–25 respectively. The Jew in Russian literature is dealt with in J. Kunitz, Russian Literature and the Jew (New York 1929). On the theme and image of the Jew in Stalinist Russian and Yiddish literature, see Bernard Choseed, ‘The Soviet Jew in literature’. Jewish Social Studies, vol. 11, no. 3, July 1949, an article written before the execution of Yiddish writers in 1952 and before Khrushchev's exposure of Stalin's crimes; a revised version appeared as ‘Jews in Soviet literature’, in E.J. Simmonds (ed.). Through the Glass of Soviet Literature: Views of Russian Society (New York 1953). 110–58. A more detailed examination of Jewish themes in Babel's writings is available in the present author's unpublished doctoral dissertation ‘The Works of I.E. Babel (1894‐?1941) with Special Reference to Tradition and Innovation in the Style of his Narrative Prose in the 1920s’ (University of Oxford 1979).
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