WRITER

Isaac Babel

1894 - 1940

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Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Soviet 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isaac Babel has received more than 590,279 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Isaac Babel is the 514th most popular writer (up from 569th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 64th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Isaac Babel is most famous for his short stories, which are written in the Russian language.

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  • 590k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Isaac Babel ranks 514 out of 7,302. Before him are Anaïs Nin, Robert A. Heinlein, Statius, Alfred Jarry, Camille Flammarion, and Gabriele Amorth. After him are Aulus Gellius, Tom Clancy, Alvin Toffler, Henry IV of Castile, Elie Wiesel, and Marie-Antoine Carême.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Isaac Babel ranks 19. Before him are Norbert Wiener, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Fritz Sauckel, Joseph Roth, Harold Macmillan, and Gala Dalí. After him are Dietrich von Choltitz, Kiichiro Toyoda, Alfred Kinsey, Satyendra Nath Bose, Heinrich Lübke, and Alexander Oparin. Among people deceased in 1940, Isaac Babel ranks 18. Before him are Peter Behrens, Arthur Harden, Emma Goldman, Manuel Azaña, Verner von Heidenstam, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky. After him are Wladimir Köppen, John Buchan, Italo Balbo, Spyridon Louis, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, and Julius Wagner-Jauregg.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Isaac Babel ranks 72 out of 1,365. Before him are Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Stanislaw Ulam (1909), Daniel of Galicia (1201), Sviatoslav Richter (1915), David Oistrakh (1908), and Sergey Bubka (1963). After him are Georges Charpak (1924), Sonia Delaunay (1885), Anatoliy Solovianenko (1932), Vladimir Tatlin (1885), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), and Larisa Latynina (1934).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Isaac Babel ranks 15. Before him are Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Vasily Grossman (1905), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), and Ilya Ehrenburg (1891). After him are Bruno Schulz (1892), Anton Makarenko (1888), Clarice Lispector (1920), Ivan Franko (1856), Irène Némirovsky (1903), and Nestor the Chronicler (1056).

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