Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer, journalist, and playwright (died 1940)

Isaac Babel

Russian writer and journalist (1894–1940)

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". Babel was arrested by the NKVD on 15 May 1939…