Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature by Rachel Rubin HARDBACK 9780252025396

Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature\nby Rachel Rubin\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Rachel Rubin\nTitle: Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: MO - University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252025396\nISBN-10: 0252025393\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nFocusing specifically on the Russian writer Isaac Babel and Americans Mike Gold, Samuel Ornitz, and Daniel Fuchs, but also taking in cartoons, movies, and modernist paintings, this title casts the Jewish gangster as a favorite figure used by left-wing Jewish writers to examine their own place in world history.\n\nFocusing specifically on the Russian writer Isaac Babel and Americans Mike Gold, Samuel Ornitz, and Daniel Fuchs, but also taking in c.