Necrology
Year: 1940
Isaac Babel
Born: July 13th, 1894
Died: January 27th, 1940
Famous For: Russian Jewish Storyteller, Journalist, Playwright, "The Greatest Prose Writer of Russian Jewry"
Cause of Death: Shot to death by the Soviets in Butyrka Prison in Moscow, Russia
Burial Place: Donskol Monastery, Moscow, Russia
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