Monday, May 9, 2016

What to see in Odessa - Literary and Jewish Personalities and Stories

I started researching the monuments and museums in Odessa and came across the Jewish Museum and looked for famous Jewish characters. I found Isaac Babel and Sholom Aleichem, hence this blog post.

Jewish Museum 

Monument to Isaac Babel, showing him seated, opposite where he lived. He was the author of 'Tales of Odessa' and 'Red Cavalry'. The monument is on the corner of Rishelyevskaya and Chukovskaya streets in Odessa.
Photo in Forward, an online magazine about Jewish people and places and news.

Isaac Babel. Picture from Wikipedia.

Famous People from Odessa
Pushkin

Famous Jewish people from Odessa:
Isaac Babel (see monument details above)
Sholom Aleichem
Gorky (museum in Moscow) was a friend of Tolstoy, Stalin and Lenin, prolific writer, lived in Odessa, Moscow, Capri, died, possibly murdered, shortly after the death of his son.
Translation of Gorky's short story Twenty Six Men And A Girl
Read the translation into English here: http://deanlm.com/writings//twenty-six_men_and_a_girl.html

Gorky. Picture from Wikipedia.


Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, researcher, author, speaker.

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