Of Sunshine and Bedbugs by Isaac Babel

Author:Isaac Babel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2022-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1 “Pyatirubel” is an odd surname, and might very well be a nickname. If it is a surname, it certainly originated as a nickname—a phonetic rendering of “five roubles”. Many of Babel’s names, be they Slavonic or Germanic in origin, bear ironic significance—like those of Lyubka “the Cossack” Shneyveys (“snow-white” in Yiddish) and Froim “the Rook” Shtern (“star” in Yiddish) in the gangster stories, or Zalman Krivoruchko (“crooked-handed” in Ukrainian) and Meyer Beskonechny (“never-ending” in Russian) in “The End of the Almshouse” (see pp. 76 and 78).

2 The Privoz, a large, mostly open-air market that dates back to the 1820s, is one of Odessa’s great landmarks.

3 Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, Bt. (1784–1885), an Italian-born British financier, was one of the great Jewish philanthropists of the nineteenth century, and a key figure in the history of Zionism. For Jews of the period, his name, along with that of the Rothschilds, was synonymous with Jewish success and social advancement.

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