WRITER

Abraham Goldfaden

1840 - 1908

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Abraham Goldfaden (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם גאָלדפֿאַדען; born Avrum Goldnfoden; 24 July 1840 – 9 January 1908), also known as Avram Goldfaden, was a Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in Yiddish and Hebrew languages and author of some 40 plays. Goldfaden is considered the father of modern Jewish theatre. In 1876 he founded in the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia what is generally credited as the world's first professional Yiddish-language theatre troupe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abraham Goldfaden has received more than 81,401 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Abraham Goldfaden is the 3,110th most popular writer (up from 3,644th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 513th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 52.66

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  • 20

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  • 7.16

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  • 1.97

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Notable Works

Shulamit
Librettos, Operas
1921
Oysgeḳlibene shrifṭn
1972
ha-Mekhashefah
1946
Shirim u-maḥazot
1970
Bar Kokhva
Operas, Librettos, Drama
1887
Di ḳaprizne kale-moyd
1887

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 3,110 out of 7,302. Before him are Ken Robinson, Sohrab Sepehri, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Maria Dąbrowska, Steve Berry, and Koriun. After him are Olga Bergholz, Andrei Sinyavsky, Takeo Arishima, Henrietta Szold, Hella Wuolijoki, and Christoph Friedrich Nicolai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 50. Before him are Gall, Édouard André, Gabriel von Max, William Graham Sumner, Dmitry Pisarev, and Friedrich Kohlrausch. After him are Titu Maiorescu, Helena Modjeska, Francišak Bahuševič, Alexander Kovalevsky, Hermann Goetz, and Otto Wilhelm Thomé. Among people deceased in 1908, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 55. Before him are Cut Nyak Dhien, Karl Möbius, Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Nikolai Linevich, and Giovanni Fattori. After him are Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Valtazar Bogišić, Edward MacDowell, William Edward Ayrton, and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 459 out of 1,365. Before him are Grigory Chukhray (1921), Viktor Vekselberg (1957), Vlas Chubar (1881), Petro Symonenko (1952), Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948), and Sydir Kovpak (1887). After him are Yevhen Marchuk (1941), Oleksandr Korniychuk (1905), Demyan Bedny (1883), Dmitry Bogrov (1887), Nikolay Diletsky (1630), and Kazimierz Bartel (1882).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 60. Before him are Panteleimon Kulish (1819), Anatoly Rybakov (1911), Rose Ausländer (1901), Yury Olesha (1899), Yury Vlasov (1935), and Nikolay Nosov (1908). After him are Demyan Bedny (1883), Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894), Leone Ginzburg (1909), Pavlo Tychyna (1891), Gabriela Zapolska (1857), and Manès Sperber (1905).

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