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Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (; ) adalah seorang penulis, jurnalis, dramawan, dan penerjemah sastra berkebangsaan Rusia. Ia paling dikenal sebagai penulis dari karya berjudul Kavaleri Merah dan Cerita dari Odessa, dan telah diakui sebagai "penulis prosa terbesar Yahudi-Rusia." Babel ditangkap oleh NKVD pada 15 Mei 1939 atas tuduhan palsu terorisme dan spionase, dan dieksekusi pada 27 Januari 1940.

Isaac Babel and Nathalie Babel Brown, Isaac Babel: The Lonely Years 1925-1939 : Unpublished Stories and Private Correspondence, David R Godine, 1995.

Jerome Charyn, Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel, Random House, 2005.

Antonina N. Pirozhkova, At His Side: The Last Years of Issac Babel, Steerforth Press, 1998.

Vitaly Shentalinsky, The KGB's Literary Files, Harvill, 1995

Gregory Freidin, ed. The Enigma of Isaac Babel: Life, History, Context . Stanford University Press, 2009

Konstantin Paustovsky, "Reminiscences of Babel", 1962

Adrien Le Bihan, "Isaac Babel, l'écrivain condamné par Staline", 346 p., Perrin, Paris, 2015.

Sam Sacks, "A Masterpiece Worth Revisiting" (review of Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk, London, Pushkin Press, 219 pp.), The Wall Street Journal, 30 April 2015.

Nicholas Lezard, “Criminally Good” (review of Isaac Babel, Odessa Stories, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk, London, Pushkin Press, 221 pp.), The Guardian, 1 November 2016.

Charles King, “You Want Him to Keep Talking” (review of Isaac Babel, Odessa Stories, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk, London, Pushkin Press, 221 pp.), Times Literary Supplement, 29 March 2017.

Gary Saul Morson, "The Horror, the Horror" (review of Isaac Babel, The Essential Fictions, edited and translated from the Russian by Val Vinokur, Northwestern University Press, 404 pp.; Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk, London, Pushkin Press, 219 pp; and Isaac Babel, Odessa Stories, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk, London, Pushkin Press, 221 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXV, no. 2 (8 February 2018), pp. 28, 30.

Babel's Biography (PDF) by Gregory Freidin (A version of this essay in Critical Biography was published in European Writer of the 20th century [NY: Scribners, 1990])

Isaac Babel Workshop (2004) at Stanford University Includes the Bibliography page with Efraim Sicher's "Checklist of Works of Isaac Babel's Works and Criticism" (2008)

Gregory Freidin's Isaac Babel Page at Stanford University

Prose in original Russian language at lib.ru

Tough Guys  reading The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Tom Teicholz

Konarmiya, Norman Davies describes Babel in Sarmatian Review, issue 3, 1995

review of The Complete Works of Isaac Babel in January 2007 issue of Jewish Currents