SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Abba Kovner

1918 - 1987

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Abba Kovner (Hebrew: אבא קובנר; 14 March 1918 – 25 September 1987) was a Jewish partisan leader, and later Israeli poet and writer. In the Vilna Ghetto, his manifesto was the first time that a target of the Holocaust identified the German plan to murder all Jews. His attempt to organize a ghetto uprising failed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abba Kovner has received more than 558,105 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Abba Kovner is the 210th most popular social activist (up from 230th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Belarus (up from 63rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Abba Kovner ranks 210 out of 840. Before him are Tiradentes, Margaret Sanger, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Aliya Moldagulova, Gretl Braun, and Khudiram Bose. After him are Sylvia Pankhurst, Christoph Probst, Balthasar Gérard, Ravachol, Franciszek Gajowniczek, and Sophia Perovskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Abba Kovner ranks 84. Before him are Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria, Jin Youzhi, Henry Calvin, Philip José Farmer, Theodore Sturgeon, and Choi Hong Hi. After him are Jean-Marie Loret, Thomas Gordon, Cicely Saunders, Huber Matos, Sandro Puppo, and Igor Ansoff. Among people deceased in 1987, Abba Kovner ranks 61. Before him are Yakov Zeldovich, Gordon Gollob, Charan Singh, Federico Mompou, Gretl Braun, and Liberace. After him are Joop den Uyl, Carlos José Castilho, Buddy Rich, Maxwell D. Taylor, Gerhard Klopfer, and Anny Ondra.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Abba Kovner ranks 53 out of 368. Before him are Euphrosyne of Polotsk (1110), Ignacy Domeyko (1802), Vasil Bykaŭ (1924), Yakov Zeldovich (1914), Salomon Maimon (1754), and Vseslav of Polotsk (1029). After him are Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), Alexander Orlov (1895), Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł (1512), Fyodor Kuznetsov (1898), Issai Schur (1875), and Yevno Azef (1869).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Belarus

Among social activists born in Belarus, Abba Kovner ranks 2. Before him are Alexander Parvus (1867). After him are Ignacy Hryniewiecki (1856), Vasily Ignatenko (1961), Tuvia Bielski (1906), Valery Levaneuski (1963), Roman Protasevich (1995), and Veronika Tsepkalo (1976).

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