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Ahad Ha'am

1856 - 1927

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Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (18 August 1856 – 2 January 1927), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name Ahad Ha'am (Hebrew: אחד העם, lit. 'one of the people', Genesis 26:10), was a Hebrew journalist and essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. He is known as the founder of cultural Zionism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahad Ha'am has received more than 282,357 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ahad Ha'am is the 1,669th most popular writer (up from 2,025th in 2019), the 231st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 261st in 2019) and the 30th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.07

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  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahad Ha'am ranks 1,669 out of 5,755Before him are Hadewijch, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Walafrid Strabo, Vicki Baum, Samuel ibn Naghrillah, and Antonio de Nebrija. After him are Ivan Klíma, Kateb Yacine, John of Kronstadt, Frans Sammut, Liu Cixin, and Maria Gripe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Ahad Ha'am ranks 39Before him are Wilhelm von Gloeden, Henri-Edmond Cross, Émile Picard, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Mahmud Shevket Pasha, and Pedro Lascuráin. After him are Enrico Ferri, Naftali Herz Imber, Stepa Stepanović, Maurycy Gottlieb, Maurice Sarrail, and Carl David Tolmé Runge. Among people deceased in 1927, Ahad Ha'am ranks 40Before him are Vilhelm Thomsen, Sisowath of Cambodia, Louise Abbéma, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Sergey Sazonov, and Jānis Čakste. After him are Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Jovan Cvijić, William, Prince of Hohenzollern, Inayat Khan, and Carl David Tolmé Runge.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Ahad Ha'am ranks 231 out of 1,083Before him are Alexandru Averescu (1859), Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), Nikolai Kapustin (1937), Waldemar Haffkine (1860), Michael of Chernigov (1185), and Ida Kamińska (1899). After him are Vladimir Dal (1801), Alexander Marinesko (1913), Lyudmila Rudenko (1904), Maya Deren (1917), Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (1819), and Joseph Kobzon (1937).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Ahad Ha'am ranks 30Before him are Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769), Aharon Appelfeld (1932), and Władysław Tarnowski (1836). After him are Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (1819), David Burliuk (1882), Naftali Herz Imber (1856), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), Lina Kostenko (1930), and Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918).