Whether he was mythologizing the escapades of his native Odesa’s Jewish gangsters or chronicling the brutal lives of Cossack cavalrymen during the Polish-Soviet War, Isaac Babel (1894-1940) wrestled with questions that continues to challenge us today: What is the proper way, if any, to assert Jewish masculinity? And what are the consequences of asserting it? Join us for breakfast and stay for answers to these questions as Boris Dralyuk presents the work and thoughts of the author considered by many to be the most influential prose writer in Russian Jewry.