Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel Исаак Бабель
Born	13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1894 Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Odesa, Ukraine)
Died	27 January 1940(1940-01-27) (aged 45) Butyrka prison, Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	journalist, short story writer and playwright
Citizenship	Russian Empire Soviet Union
Notable works	Red Cavalry Odessa Stories
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Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель, romanized: Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel; Ukrainian: Ісак Еммануїлович Бабель, romanized: Isak 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.