WRITER

Jerzy Andrzejewski

1909 - 1983

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Jerzy Andrzejewski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ andʐɛˈjɛfskʲi]; 19 August 1909 – 19 April 1983) was a prolific Polish writer. His works confront controversial moral issues such as betrayal, the Jews and Auschwitz in the wartime. His novels, Ashes and Diamonds (about the immediate post-war situation in Poland), and Holy Week (treating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), have been made into film adaptations by the Oscar-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerzy Andrzejewski has received more than 85,088 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jerzy Andrzejewski is the 2,481st most popular writer (up from 2,635th in 2019), the 546th most popular biography from Poland (up from 579th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 85k

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  • 54.56

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Popiół i diament
1957
The appeal
Fiction
1971
Bramy raju
Children's Crusade, 1212 in fiction, Children's Crusade, 1212, Fiction
1963
The inquisitors
Fiction, Inquisition
1960
Popiół i diament
Fiction, Motion picture plays, Polish fiction
1948
Noc
1945

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jerzy Andrzejewski ranks 2,481 out of 7,302. Before him are John of Ephesus, Marlen Haushofer, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Richard Wright, Eeva Kilpi, and Ludovic Halévy. After him are Ulrich von Liechtenstein, Timotheus of Miletus, Wilhelm Raabe, Richard Adams, Peter Shaffer, and Isak Samokovlija.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Jerzy Andrzejewski ranks 125. Before him are Hendrik Casimir, Shigeo Shingo, Dana Andrews, Lamberto Maggiorani, Stephen Cole Kleene, and Juan José Nogués. After him are Dean Rusk, David Frankfurter, Reuven Shiloah, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Seichō Matsumoto, and W. Montgomery Watt. Among people deceased in 1983, Jerzy Andrzejewski ranks 92. Before him are Ángel Labruna, Lamberto Maggiorani, Florence Owens Thompson, Salo Flohr, Grigori Aleksandrov, and Hennes Weisweiler. After him are John Vorster, Vladimir Bakarić, Eric Hoffer, Roy Sullivan, Juan López Fontana, and Maurice Bishop.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jerzy Andrzejewski ranks 546 out of 1,694. Before him are Jadwiga of Kalisz (1266), Bolesław the Pious (1225), Richard Courant (1888), Peter Yorck von Wartenburg (1904), Paul Löbe (1875), and Lidia Zamenhof (1904). After him are Kazys Grinius (1866), Franz Neumann (1900), Hans Stuck (1900), Yehuda Ashlag (1886), Johann Schobert (1720), and Hagen Kleinert (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Jerzy Andrzejewski ranks 56. Before him are Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), George Adamski (1891), Stefan Żeromski (1864), Wanda Wasilewska (1905), and Lidia Zamenhof (1904). After him are Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715), Ignacy Krasicki (1735), Isaac Deutscher (1907), Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), and Adam Michnik (1946).

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