1881 - 1983
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881 – November 8, 1983) was a Lithuanian-born American rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian, philosopher, activist, and religious leader who founded the Reconstructionist branch of Judaism along with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mordecai Kaplan has received more than 255,151 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mordecai Kaplan is the 4,364th most popular writer (down from 3,746th in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 91st in 2019) and the 16th most popular Lithuanian Writer.
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Among writers, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 4,364 out of 5,755. Before him are Fredric Wertham, Chris Van Allsburg, Peter Scholl-Latour, Atiq Rahimi, Vitaly Bianki, and Rosa Chacel. After him are Johann von Rist, Tabitha King, William Trevor, Ariel Dorfman, Marietta Shaginyan, and Boris Vasilyev.
1895 - 1981
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 4,358
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.50
Rank: 4,359
1924 - 2014
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 4,360
1962 - Present
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 4,361
1894 - 1959
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 4,362
1898 - 1994
HPI: 47.48
Rank: 4,363
1881 - 1983
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 4,364
1607 - 1667
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 4,365
1949 - Present
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 4,366
1928 - 2016
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 4,367
1942 - Present
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 4,368
1888 - 1982
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 4,369
1924 - 2013
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 4,370
Among people born in 1881, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 144. Before him are Edgar Leonard, Smedley Butler, Harry Edwin Wood, Jess Willard, Otto Toeplitz, and Fernand Sanz. After him are Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet, Ludwig Kaas, Antti Hackzell, Walter Krueger, Jim Bellamy, and Dora Boothby. Among people deceased in 1983, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 156. Before him are Neil Ritchie, Jānis Ivanovs, Gyula Lázár, Adrian Boult, José Iraragorri, and Nina Dumbadze. After him are Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Eugène Chaboud, José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Bart Bok, Szolem Mandelbrojt, and Alfonso Calzolari.
1881 - 1948
HPI: 48.04
Rank: 138
1881 - 1940
HPI: 47.87
Rank: 139
1881 - 1946
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 140
1881 - 1968
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 141
1881 - 1940
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 142
1881 - 1925
HPI: 47.51
Rank: 143
1881 - 1983
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 144
1881 - 1972
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 145
1881 - 1952
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 146
1881 - 1946
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 147
1881 - 1967
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 148
1881 - 1969
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 149
1881 - 1970
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 150
1897 - 1983
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 150
1906 - 1983
HPI: 47.85
Rank: 151
1911 - 1983
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 152
1889 - 1983
HPI: 47.63
Rank: 153
1912 - 1983
HPI: 47.60
Rank: 154
1919 - 1983
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 155
1881 - 1983
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 156
1908 - 1983
HPI: 47.42
Rank: 157
1907 - 1983
HPI: 47.30
Rank: 158
1917 - 1983
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 159
1906 - 1983
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 160
1899 - 1983
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 161
1887 - 1983
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 162
Among people born in Lithuania, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 132 out of 287. Before him are Artūras Paulauskas (1953), Ben Shahn (1898), Michał Elwiro Andriolli (1836), Rimas Kurtinaitis (1960), Aharon Barak (1936), and Aušra Augustinavičiūtė (1927). After him are Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873), Napoleon Cybulski (1854), Vincentas Sladkevičius (1920), Ignaty Krachkovsky (1883), Modestas Paulauskas (1945), and Irena Veisaitė (1928).
1953 - Present
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 126
1898 - 1969
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 127
1836 - 1893
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 128
1960 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 129
1936 - Present
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 130
1927 - 2005
HPI: 47.51
Rank: 131
1881 - 1983
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 132
1873 - 1944
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 133
1854 - 1919
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 134
1920 - 2000
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 135
1883 - 1951
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 136
1945 - Present
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 137
1928 - 2020
HPI: 46.63
Rank: 138
Among writers born in Lithuania, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 16. Before him are Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Žemaitė (1845), Antanas Baranauskas (1835), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), Osip Senkovsky (1800), and Źmitrok Biadula (1886). After him are Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873), Irena Veisaitė (1928), Georgy Ivanov (1894), Sigitas Geda (1943), Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961), and Arvydas Juozaitis (1956).
1840 - 1900
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 10
1845 - 1921
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 11
1835 - 1902
HPI: 49.05
Rank: 12
1930 - 2011
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 13
1800 - 1858
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 14
1886 - 1941
HPI: 48.11
Rank: 15
1881 - 1983
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 16
1873 - 1944
HPI: 47.34
Rank: 17
1928 - 2020
HPI: 46.63
Rank: 18
1894 - 1958
HPI: 44.66
Rank: 19
1943 - 2008
HPI: 42.56
Rank: 20
1961 - 2007
HPI: 42.52
Rank: 21
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.19
Rank: 22