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Doctor Zhivago
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[Gordon and Zhivago were on their way home in the evening. The sun was going down.] In one village [they passed through] they saw a young Cossack surrounded by a crowd…

Contributor:

Boris Pasternak

Places:

Peredelkino, USSR (Novo-Peredelkino, Russia)

Date:

1956

Subjects:

Christian-Jewish relations, Antisemitism, Jewish identity, Wisdom, Community

Categories:

Literature, Fiction
Shabos-Nakhamu
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This is how things go with your average Jew. But Hershele is not your average Jew. It wasn’t by chance that he was famous in all of Ostropol, in all of Berdichev, and in all of Vilyuisk. Hershele…

Contributor:

Isaac Babel

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Economic life, Marriage, Cities, Community, Jewish identity

Categories:

Literature, Fiction