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Jun 30, 1894 Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine Died on 27 Jan 1940 (aged 45)
Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer
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About Isaac Babel
- Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: ????? ???????????? ??????, IPA: ['bab??l?]; 13 July [O.S.
- 1 July] 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator.
- He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry, Story of My Dovecote and The Odessa Tales—stories from the life of Jewish gangsters from Odessa led by Benya Krik (prototype – Mishka Yaponchik).
- He has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry".
- Babel was arrested by the NKVD on 15 May 1939 on fabricated charges of terrorism and espionage, and executed on 27 January 1940.
