WRITER

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: אַחַד הָעָם, 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 309,264 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ahad Ha'am is the 1,986th most popular writer (down from 1,665th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 228th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Selected Essays by Ahad Ha 'Am
2005
The Spiritual Revival
2005
Selected essays
Political and social conditions, Jews, Zionism
1912
ʻAl parashat derakhim
Judaism, Zionism
1895
Ten essays on Zionism and Judaism
Jews, Judaism, Restoration
1922

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahad Ha'am ranks 1,986 out of 7,302. Before him are Étienne Dolet, Sébastien Japrisot, José Carlos Mariátegui, Elena Poniatowska, Sholem Schwarzbard, and Cristóbal de Morales. After him are Alexander Fadeyev, Terentianus, Jacques Amyot, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Lady Randolph Churchill, and Vsevolod Garshin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Ahad Ha'am ranks 48. Before him are Carl David Tolmé Runge, Matthias Zurbriggen, Maurycy Gottlieb, Enrico Ferri, Christian Sinding, and Sergei Winogradsky. After him are Stevan Mokranjac, Hermann von François, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Georg von der Marwitz, Karl Krumbacher, and J.-H. Rosny aîné. Among people deceased in 1927, Ahad Ha'am ranks 47. Before him are Jovan Cvijić, Hugo Schuchardt, Victorine Meurent, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, and William, Prince of Hohenzollern. After him are Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Fyodor Sologub, Jonas Basanavičius, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Fritz Hofmann, and Lizzie Borden.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Ahad Ha'am ranks 294 out of 1,365. Before him are Theophan Prokopovich (1681), David Riazanov (1870), Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875), Maxim Berezovsky (1745), and Sholem Schwarzbard (1886). After him are Vsevolod Garshin (1855), Sidney Reilly (1873), Igor Shafarevich (1923), Sergey Kamenev (1881), Viacheslav Chornovil (1937), and Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Ahad Ha'am ranks 42. Before him are Vasyl Stus (1938), Lina Kostenko (1930), Zbigniew Herbert (1924), Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875), and Sholem Schwarzbard (1886). After him are Vsevolod Garshin (1855), Tadeusz Borowski (1922), Mikhail Artsybashev (1878), Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (1819), Dmytro Dontsov (1883), and Mikołaj Rej (1505).

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