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Isaac E. Babel (1894-1940) was a Soviet journalist and playwright who was acclaimed by some as „the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry“. He was imprisoned by Stalin authorities and shot in 1940. Very famous is Babel’s play Maria, a sordid underbelly of the Soviet society.