[Year of first publication] 1926 (book, play & film) [Character(s)] Benya Krik [Work] Odessa Tales (Одесские рассказы)(Collected short stories) Sunset (play) Benya Krik (film) [Creator] Isaak Babel [Country of publication] Russia [Details] With the character of Benya Krik, Babel brought the "Jewish gangster" motif from folk tales to "high" literature, a tradition followed by a number of other artists, who also play on the mixture of "Russian, Yiddish, Odessa jargon and thieves' argot" that Krik speaks through their use of language to signal the Jewish gangster.[54] [Media] 
Novel Play Film