David Novack's documentary 'Finding Babel' follows Andrei Malaev-Babel as he retraces the steps of his grandfather, famed Russian author Isaac Babel. By Frank Scheck Representing both a literary and ...

Legacy documentaries about history’s gifted writers can sometimes be tough going if the filmmaker hasn’t figured out how to convey the life and the literature on screen in a way that commands your ...

This lit-doc travelogue gains in power, insight, and urgency as it journeys. Andrei Malaev-Babel sets off to Eastern Europe to trace the life of his grandfather, Isaac Babel, whose Odessa Stories and ...

Though not officially listed as a “ Yiddish” writer/poet, the name of Isaac Babel had been part of the “conversation” about the fate of Yiddish writers and poets who were brutally executed at the ...

Russian writer Isaac Babel (1894-1940) is remembered in this astute documentary, which follows his grandson Andrei as he travels throughout Ukraine, Russia and France to trace the connection between ...

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This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The film “Finding Babel” portrays theater professor Andrei Malaev-Babel’s journey across the former USSR seeking traces of his grandfather, ...

The subversive masterpieces of Russian-Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel challenged the reality of life under rising totalitarianism, and led to his arrest and execution in 1940. In Finding Babel, Andrei ...

About Isaac Babel's writings are subversive masterpieces, challenging the ideology of the early Soviet Union, and resulting in his arrest and execution in 1940. On the 75th anniversary of Isaac ...