Isaak Babel was born on June 30, 1894 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Bluzhdayushchie zvyozdy (1927), Dzhimmi Khiggins (1928) and Das Jüdische Glück (1925). He was married to Yevgenia Gronfein. He died on January 27, 1940 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
