biography
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Babel, Isaac (Emmanuilovich)
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pronunciation:
[babel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1941)
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| biography:
| Short-story writer, a protégé of Maxim Gorky, born in the Jewish ghetto of Odessa, S Ukraine. He worked as a journalist in St Petersburg, then served in the tsar's army and in various Bolshevik campaigns. He wrote stories of the Jews in Odessa in Odesskie rasskazy (1916, Odessa Tales), and tales of the brutality and heroism of the post-revolutionary Russian Civil War in Konarmiya (1926, Red Cavalry). He was exiled to Siberia in the mid-1930s, and died in a concentration camp. |
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