Isaac Babel
Soviet writer and journalist
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Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel 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". Wikipedia
Born: July 13, 1894, Odesa, Ukraine
Died: January 27, 1940 (age 45 years), Prisión de Butyrka, Moscow, Russia
Spouse: Yevgenia Gronfein (m. 1919–1940)
Children: Nathalie Babel Brown and Lydia Babel
Parents: Manus Bobel and Feyga Bobel
Notable works: Red Cavalry; Odessa Stories
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