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The Little Golden Calf (Russian: Золотой телёнок, Zolotoy telyonok) is a satirical picaresque novel by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1931. Its main character, Ostap Bender, also appears in a previous novel by the authors called The Twelve Chairs. The title alludes to the "golden calf" of the Bible.
The Adoration of the Golden Calf – picture from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century). According to the Torah and the Quran, the golden calf (Hebrew: עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב, romanized: ʿēḡel hazzāhāḇ) was a cult image made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai.
Shortly after that they published the book Одноэтажная Америка (literally: "One-storied America"), translated as Little Golden America [7] (an allusion to The Little Golden Calf). The first edition of the book did not include Ilf's photographs.
Ostap Bender as portrayed by Andrei Mironov, 1976. Ostap Bender (Russian: Остап Бендер) is a fictional con man and the central antiheroic protagonist in the novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931) written by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov.
He is known for his books Ichts aus Nichts, für alle Begierigen der Natur published in 1655, Vitulus Aureus (The Golden Calf), published in 1667 under the pseudonym Joakim Philander, and Miraculo transmutandi Metallica, Antwerp, 1667.
The Golden Calf (1883) Ishmael. A novel (1884) Flower and Weed and other tales (1884) Wyllard's Weird (1885) Mohawks (1886) One Thing Needful (1886) The Good Hermione: A Story for the Jubilee Year (1886, as Aunt Belinda) Cut by the County (1887) The Fatal Three (1888) The Day Will Come (1889) One Life, One Love (1890) The World, the Flesh and ...
The Little Golden Calf One-storied America Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf [ 1 ] (born Iehiel-Leyb Aryevich Faynzilberg ; Russian : Иехи́ел-Лейб Арьевич Фа́йнзильберг ; [ 2 ] 15 October [ O.S. 3 October] 1897 – 13 April 1937) was a Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with ...
The Golden Calf (gouache on board, c. 1896–1902 by James Tissot). Ki Tisa, Ki Tissa, Ki Thissa, or Ki Sisa (כִּי תִשָּׂא —Hebrew for "when you take," the sixth and seventh words, and first distinctive words in the parashah) is the 21st weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the Book of Exodus.