Talk:Isaac Babel

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What is preferred for birthdates for Russian writers--New Style calendar or Old? I've edited the page to reflect Babel's birthday in the New Style.

adoarns 16:46, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Death date?

There are two of them~in the article. Xx236 09:07, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

  • The official Soviet history was trying to shift the Great Purge related death dates of prominent people to the Great Patriotic War time, so that an unsophisticated reader would attribute it to the War. The 1940 date is almost certainly the correct one. abakharev 12:15, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Correct. I made an attempt to make it more clear. ←Humus sapiens ну? 02:03, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

You are taking his early life from a fictional story "The Story of My Dovecote." His family was in Nikolaev during the great Odessa Pogrom of 1905. He fictionalized his childhood and was coy about his real childhood. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.31.139.184 (talk) 18:12, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 1920 Diary

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300093136/104-7772162-1082348?v=glance&n=283155

[edit] Wife/Widow

Are the woman he married in 1919 and his widow two different people? There seems to be a chunk of biography missing. --♥ «Charles A. L.» 17:38, 5 June 2006 (UTC)