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Isaac Babel, (born June 30 [July 12, New Style], 1894, Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died January 27, 1940, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Russian short-story writer known for his cycles of stories: Konarmiya (1926, rev. ed. 1931, enlarged 1933; Red Cavalry), set in the Russo-Polish War (1919–20); Odesskiye rasskazy (1931; Tales of Odessa ...

Isaac Babel, (born July 13, 1894, Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died Jan. 27, 1940, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Russian short-story writer. Born Jewish in Ukraine, Babel grew up in an atmosphere of persecution that is reflected in his stories. Maxim Gorky encouraged him to travel abroad to expand his horizons.

Like many Russian Jews of his time, Isaac Babel experienced the glimmering hope of emancipation, acceptance, and even popularity in secular Russian society, a hope that was eventually extinguished by Stalin’s politics of terror. In 1941, he was murdered by Stalin’s secret police under false premises of spying and treason. A World within a World

Odessa Stories ( Russian: Одесские рассказы, romanized : Odesskiye rasskazy ), also known as Tales of Odessa, is a collection of four short stories by Isaac Babel, set in Odessa in the last days of the Russian empire and the Russian Revolution.

1 O f the Russian authors I have come to revere, Isaac Babel was the biggest revelation, and not only for his style. He was born in 1894 in Odessa: technically in the Russian empire, in practice...

Isaac Babel (1894-1940) was, perhaps, the first Soviet prose writer to achieve a truly stellar stature in Russia, to enjoy a wide-ranging international reputation as a grand master of the short story,1 and to continue to influence—directly through his own work as well as through criticism and scholarship— ...

Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель; 1894 - 1940) was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry, Story of my Dovecote and Tales of Odessa, all of which are considered masterpieces of Russian literature.

Quick Reference. (1894–1941) Russian short-story writer and playwright. The son of a tradesman, Babel was born and grew up in the Jewish community of Odessa. Determined to establish himself as a writer outside this closed Yiddish-speaking society, he went to St Petersburg where he met Gorki, who published his first two stories, written in ...