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Mordecai Kaplan

1881 - 1983

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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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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

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  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 4,364 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 144Before 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 156Before 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.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 132 out of 287Before 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).

Among WRITERS In Lithuania

Among writers born in Lithuania, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 16Before 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).