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David Bergelson

1884 - 1952

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David (or Dovid) Bergelson (Yiddish: דוד בערגעלסאָן, Russian: Давид Бергельсон, 12 August 1884 – 12 August 1952) was a Yiddish language writer born in the Russian Empire. He lived for a time in Berlin, Germany, before moving to the Soviet Union following the Nazi rise to power in Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Bergelson has received more than 51,029 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. David Bergelson is the 3,521st most popular writer (down from 3,446th in 2019), the 499th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 455th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 50.03

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, David Bergelson ranks 3,521 out of 5,755Before him are Roger Vailland, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Ronald Harwood, Chögyam Trungpa, Alfred Kerr, and Leopold Zunz. After him are Peter Wessel Zapffe, Henrietta Szold, Ildefonso Falcones, Donna Tartt, Gertrude Jekyll, and Gustaf Fröding.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, David Bergelson ranks 116Before him are Henri Queuille, Ali Aaltonen, Juhan Aavik, Burrill Bernard Crohn, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, and Phraya Manopakorn Nititada. After him are Agus Salim, Axel Ljung, Martin Klein, Jack Greenwell, Maciej Rataj, and Willem Marinus Dudok. Among people deceased in 1952, David Bergelson ranks 99Before him are Sunao Tawara, Elmo Lincoln, Silvio Cator, Constant Permeke, Mariano Azuela, and Karel Lamač. After him are Arturo Rawson, Alberto Hurtado, John Garfield, Petros Persakis, Gino Fano, and Fletcher Henderson.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, David Bergelson ranks 499 out of 1,083Before him are Mikhail Koltsov (1898), Myroslav Skoryk (1938), Mykola Pymonenko (1862), Denis Pushilin (1981), Olena Zelenska (1978), and Anatoliy Byshovets (1946). After him are Valentin Mankin (1938), Valeriy Pidluzhnyy (1952), Maciej Rataj (1884), Aleksandr Gauk (1893), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), and Alexander Granach (1890).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, David Bergelson ranks 68Before him are Yury Olesha (1899), Demyan Bedny (1883), Ida Fink (1921), Oles Honchar (1918), Ilya Ilf (1897), and Mikhail Koltsov (1898). After him are Viktor Nekrasov (1911), Abraham Goldfaden (1840), Yevgeny Petrov (1902), Mykola Bazhan (1904), Jan Brzechwa (1898), and Mikhail Zhvanetsky (1934).