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Isaak Babel
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Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer (1894–1940)
OverviewAI-generated
Isaak Babel was a writer whose professional career began in 1921. He died on 27 January 1940. His birth date is recorded with varying dates in 1894, including 13 July, 30 June, 12 July, and 1 July.
Among his notable works are *Одесские рассказы. Конармия*, *Twice-Told Tales*, *Happy Endings*, and *Cavalerie rouge*. The collection *Isaac Babel's Selected Writings* is also listed among his top works. Records indicate he has 78 works associated with his name.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, Europeana Sparql, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 13 July 1984
- Died
- 27 January 1940
- Works
- 78
Top works
- Одесские рассказы. Конармия
- Twice-Told Tales
- Happy Endings
- Cavalerie rouge
- Isaac Babel's Selected Writings
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9
- Total plays
- 16
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Low-cost adsorbents for heavy metals uptake from contaminated water: a review
· 2003 · cited 2,813x
- The<i>Herschel</i>-SPIRE instrument and its in-flight performance
· 2010 · cited 1,877x
- Physico–chemical treatment techniques for wastewater laden with heavy metals
· 2006 · cited 1,744x
- Electron Transport Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
· 2004 · cited 1,544x
- Cr(VI) removal from synthetic wastewater using coconut shell charcoal and commercial activated carbon modified with oxidizing agents and/or chitosan
· 2004 · cited 769x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Babel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Odesa
- Place of death
- Butyrka prison
- Spouse
- Antonina Pirožkova
- Occupation
- short story writer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Notable work
- Red Cavalry
- Genre
- sketch story
- Image
- Isaac Babel.jpg
- Significant event
- Nazi book burnings
Show 13 more facts
- name in native language
- Исаак Эммануилович Бабель
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- topic's main category
- Category:Isaac Babel
- Commons category
- Isaac Babel
- date of death
- 1940-01-27
- Commons gallery
- Исаак Эммануилович Бабель
- place of burial
- Donskoe cemetery
- cause of death
- gunshot wound
- start of work period
- 1921-00-00
- writing language
- Russian
- place of detention
- Lubyanka Building
- manner of death
- capital punishment
- date of birth
- 1894-07-01
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Isaak Babel, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July [O.S. 30 June] 1894 – 27 January 1940) 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.
Early years
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