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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 75,745 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Abraham Goldfaden is the 3,657th most popular writer, the 516th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 70th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.57

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  • 1.73

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 3,657 out of 5,755Before him are Farrukhi Sistani, Katherine Anne Porter, Filippo Buonaccorsi, Laza Kostić, José Emilio Pacheco, and Bernardo Guimarães. After him are Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, Amir Hamzah, Vitsentzos Kornaros, Helena Roerich, and Kurd Lasswitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 57Before him are Yaa Asantewaa, Francišak Bahuševič, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, William Graham Sumner, Alexander Kovalevsky, and Charles Warren. After him are Chief Joseph, Viktor Knorre, Célestine Galli-Marié, William Henry Conley, Kazimierz Alchimowicz, and Theodor Philipsen. Among people deceased in 1908, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 66Before him are Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, Friedrich von Esmarch, Friedrich Traun, Lester Allan Pelton, Heinrich Hübschmann, and Ernest Hébert. After him are Friedrich Paulsen, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Paul Taffanel, Rūdolfs Blaumanis, William Edward Ayrton, and Lorenz Frølich.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 516 out of 1,083Before him are Ross Martin (1920), Arkhip Lyulka (1908), Viktor Nekrasov (1911), Franz Roubaud (1856), Vladimir Smirnov (1954), and Georgy Shonin (1935). After him are Nikolai Podvoisky (1880), Aleksandar Malinov (1867), Semyon Ignatyev (1904), Yevgeny Petrov (1902), Mykola Avilov (1948), and Grigory Yavlinsky (1952).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 70Before him are Ida Fink (1921), Oles Honchar (1918), Ilya Ilf (1897), Mikhail Koltsov (1898), David Bergelson (1884), and Viktor Nekrasov (1911). After him are Yevgeny Petrov (1902), Mykola Bazhan (1904), Jan Brzechwa (1898), Mikhail Zhvanetsky (1934), Aleksei Kruchyonykh (1886), and Vladimir Megre (1950).