Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel
Исаак Бабель
Born13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1894
Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
(now Odesa, Ukraine)
Died27 January 1940(1940-01-27) (aged 45)
Butyrka prison, Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupationjournalist, short story writer and playwright
CitizenshipRussian Empire
Soviet Union
Notable worksRed Cavalry
Odessa Stories
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Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель, romanizedIsaak Emmanuilovich Babel; Ukrainian: Ісак Еммануїлович Бабель, romanizedIsak Emmanuilovych Babel; 13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Soviet writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, and has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry".[1] Babel was arrested by the NKVD on 15 May 1939 on fabricated charges of terrorism and espionage, and executed on 27 January 1940.

  1. ^ Neither and Both: Anthology. Joshua Cohen. The Jewish Daily Forward, July 6, 2007, p. B2.