# Isaac Babel

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Podcast Then & Now #31 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Marina Sapritsky-Nahum

Welcome to the 31st edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now. Our latest guest is Marina Sapritsky-Nahum, a social anthropologist and author of the book Jewish Odesa, published in 2024 by Indiana University Press. The book explores issues of identity and tradition in the Jewish community…

BCLS13E3: Nick Sayers

Nick Sayers's book choices: The Jews of Lithuania by Nick Sayers Tevye the Milkman by Sholem Aleichem World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe1920 Diary by Isaac Babel Wartime Experiences in Lithuania by Rivka Lozansky Bogomolnaya The Nazi's Granddaughter by Silvia Foti Ulysses by James Joyce You can fi…

EP.9: REVENGE OF THE TREES

On a woodsy episode of a new podcast, co-hosts Clementine Ford, Vincenzo Barney, and Christian Lorentzen review Train Dreams, a film by Clint Bentley adapted from the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson. Topics discussed include: modernity; time; fire; murder; subtext; Terrence Malick; The Big Lebowski; …

George Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sin

George Saunders is tired of being the “kindness guy.” Saunders is one of my favorite fiction writers, and a friend of the pod; I talked to him back in 2021 and 2022. He also has a reputation as a kind of guru of kindness, thanks to a viral commencement speech he gave back in 2013. We talked about k…

Boris Rodos: Soviet Secret Police Torturer Executed After Stalin’s Death

Boris Rodos was one of the most feared torturers of Stalin’s Soviet secret police, later executed for extracting false confessions through brutality. Boris Veniaminovich Rodos rose from an unimpressive provincial life to become one of the most sadistic interrogators in Stalin’s Soviet Union. Born o…

Lev Shvartzman: Stalin's Torturer During the Great Purge in the Soviet Union

Lev Shvartzman was one of the most feared interrogators of Stalin’s Soviet secret police, becoming notorious for torture, forced confessions, and his role in the Great Purge. Born in 1907 in Shpola, in the Russian Empire, Shvartzman came from a family opposed to Bolshevik rule. Despite this backgro…