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Odessa Unit
Honors Babel

Odessa, Ukraine (JTA) — The
Odessa State Literary Museum
is currently paying homage to
Jewish writer Isaac Babel in an
exhibit that will be on display un-
til January.
Mr. Babel, who was born in
Odessa in 1894, lived in the city
when it was a cosmopolitan cen-
ter for Jewish art, literature and
politics. The excitement of this
era is reflected in the museum it-
self, which has been exquisitely
restored to remind visitors of the
city's past glory.
The Babel exhibit includes il-
lustrations from some of Mr. Ba-
bel's works, photos, postcards,
books from his childhood and in-
formation about his life.
Famous as a Russian stylist as
well as a Jewish writer, Mr. Ba-
bel is best known for two collec-
tions of short stories, "Red
Cavalry" and "Odessa Tales." He
also wrote two plays, The Sunset
and Maria.
Besides his writings about
Odessa's Jews, who "bubble like
cheap red wine," Mr. Babel wrote
about the gangsters, prostitutes
and beggars who gathered at the
city's seaport.
In addition to the Babel ex-
hibit, the museum also is pre-
senting, through Oct. 1, a display
of Jewish artifacts from Odessa
and from Baltimore, its sister
city. The display includes ritual
objects for the Jewish home, such
as a mezuzah, a Torah and a sho-
far.
Until perestroika — the so-
called "restructuring" of Soviet
priorities — and then Ukrainian
independence, some of these dis-
plays would have been forbidden,
said Anna Misjuk, a museum
staff member.
"So many rich pages of
Odessa's cultural life were
closed," she said, adding that the
changing times present vast new
opportunities for research and ex-
hibitions on the city's Jewish lit-
erary past.
Visitors are recommended to
stroll through the permanent ex-
hibit, which presents photos,
books and fragments of writers'
lives with imaginative, three-di-
mensional displays echoing the
changing literary styles.
Close observation reveals the
occasional references to some of
Odessa's most famous Jewish
writers. Besides Mr. Babel, it was
also home at one time to Asher
Hirsch Ginsberg, known as Ahad
Ha'am; Chaim Nachman Bialik;
Shalom Jacob Abramowitsch,
who wrote under the pen-name
Mendele Mokher Seforim; and
revisionist Zionist leader
Vladimir Jabotinsky.
Mr. Jabotinsky, besides en-
gaging in his political work, was
also a prolific fiction writer, both
in Hebrew and in Russian.

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