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Isaak Babel

Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель) was a Russian 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.

Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer (1894–1940)

Born	13 July 1984
Died	27 January 1940

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Collected stories

by Isaak Babel, Isaac Babel, and David McDuff
First published in 1927 — 23 editions
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Red Cavalry

by Isaak Babel First published in 1927 — 18 editions

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Izbrannoe

by Isaak Babel First published in 1957 — 6 editions

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Odesskie rasskazy =: Odessa stories

by Isaak Babel First published in 1976 — 4 editions

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Chetyre rasskaza =: Four stories

by Isaak Babel First published in 1981 — 4 editions

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Zabytye rasskazy.: Iz pisem k druzi̓︠a︡m. Long-forgotten tales. Letters to friends.

by Isaak Babel First published in 1965 — 4 editions

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Zakat =: Sunset : a play

by Isaak Babel First published in 1970 — 4 editions

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Konarmiya.

by Isaak Babel First published in 1928 — 4 editions

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Isaac Babel's Selected Writings (Norton Critical Edition)

by Isaac Babel and Isaak Babel First published in 2006 — 3 editions

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Isaac Babel: the lonely years, 1925-1939; unpublished stories and private correspondence.

by Isaak Babel First published in 1964 — 3 editions
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You must know everything: stories, 1915-1937

by Isaak Babel First published in 1969 — 3 editions
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Rasskazy.

by Isaak Babel First published in 1936 — 3 editions

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Benya Krik, the gangster.

by Isaak Babel First published in 1948 — 3 editions
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Twice-Told Tales: an anthology of short fiction

by Gerard A. Barker, Jack London, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Katherine Mansfield, Антон Павлович Чехов, Samuel Seabough, Mark Twain, Frank O'Connor, Sherwood Anderson, and 27 others First published in 1966 — 3 editions
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Sochineniya [v dvukh tomakh]

by Isaak Babel First published in 1990 — 2 editions

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Bluzhdaiushchie zvezdy.: Kino-stsenarii.

by Isaak Babel First published in 1972 — 2 editions

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The complete works of Isaac Babel

by Isaak Babel First published in 2001 — 2 editions

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Dnevnik 1920: konarmeĭskiĭ

by Isaak Babel First published in 1992 — 2 editions

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Benia Krik: a film-novel

by Isaak Babel First published in 1973 — 2 editions

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Konarmi|i|a: Odesskie rasskasy; pe̓sy. Selected stories & plays

by Isaak Babel First published in 1960 — 2 editions

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Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer (1894–1940)

Born	13 July 1984
Died	27 January 1940

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OLID: OL47639A
GoodReads: 34055
ISNI: 0000000121200691
IMDb: nm0044871
Library of Congress Names: n50047804
LibraryThing: babelisaac
SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV002409
VIAF: 9842443
Wikidata: Q49080
Inventaire.io: wd:Q49080

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Isaak Babel
I. Babel'
Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel
Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel'
Babel, I. (Isaak), 1894-1941.
I. Babelʹ
I Babel̓
И.Э.Бабель
Исаак Бабель

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