Biography

Isaak Babel was born on June 30, 1894 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Wandering Stars (1927), Jimmie Higgins (1928) and Jewish Luck (1925). He was married to Yevgenia Gronfein. He died on January 27, 1940 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].

Soviet journalist, playwright, and short story writer. Executed on orders by Joseph Stalin during the Great Purge.

His son with girlfriend Tamara Kashirina was adopted by Vsevolod Ivanov when Ivanov married Tamara.

Lived with Antonina Pirojkova from 1934 until his arrest in 1939. It was not until the 1990s that she learned Babel had died in 1940.