Author
Исаак Бабель
2 standalones · 2 works in the catalog
1894–1940 · Moldavanka, Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel was a Russian and 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". Babel was arrested by the NKVD on 15 May 1939 on fabricated charges of terrorism and espionage, and executed on 27 January 1940.
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