Isaak Babel

Writer

Date of birth : 06/29/1894

Date of death : 01/27/1940

City of birth : Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Isaak Babel was born on June 30, 1894 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire as Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel. He was a writer, known for Wandering Stars (1927), Jewish Luck (1925) and Bennie the Howl (1927). He was married to Yevgenia Gronfein. He died on January 27, 1940 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].