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Isaac Babel

1894 - 1940

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Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель, romanized: Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel; Ukrainian: Ісак Еммануїлович Бабель, romanized: Isak Emmanuilovych 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 538,944 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Isaac Babel is the 570th most popular writer (down from 556th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 55th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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

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  • 540k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Isaac Babel ranks 570 out of 5,755. Before him are Theocritus, Sándor Petőfi, Mo Yan, Lion Feuchtwanger, Dietrich Eckart, and Eyvind Johnson. After him are Dino Buzzati, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Francisco de Quevedo, Salvatore Quasimodo, Theodore Dreiser, and Ludvig Holberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Isaac Babel ranks 21. Before him are Harold Macmillan, Fritz Sauckel, Dietrich von Choltitz, Gala Dalí, Benjamin Graham, and Alfred Kinsey. After him are Moshe Sharett, Martha Graham, Hermann Oberth, Pyotr Kapitsa, Dashiell Hammett, and Kiichiro Toyoda. Among people deceased in 1940, Isaac Babel ranks 17. Before him are Emma Goldman, Carl Bosch, Peter Behrens, Manuel Azaña, Gerda Wegener, and Wladimir Köppen. After him are Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Spyridon Louis, Italo Balbo, Verner von Heidenstam, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Isaac Babel ranks 64 out of 1,083. Before him are Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Selman Waksman (1888), Daniel of Galicia (1201), John Demjanjuk (1920), and Andrzej Żuławski (1940). After him are Moshe Sharett (1894), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Larisa Latynina (1934), Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939), Sonia Delaunay (1885), and Anton Makarenko (1888).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Isaac Babel ranks 13. Before him are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), and Lesya Ukrainka (1871). After him are Irène Némirovsky (1903), Anton Makarenko (1888), Ivan Franko (1856), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Clarice Lispector (1920), and Bruno Schulz (1892).

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