Nathan Englander reads 'The Story of My Dovecote' by Isaac Babel

Jan 3, 201300:32:30Arts

Nathan Englander finds Jewish history, corruption and man’s inhumanity to man and pigeons in Isaac Babel’s ‘The Story Of My Dovecote’

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