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Mordechai Gebirtig

1877 - 1942

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Mordechai Gebirtig (Yiddish: מרדכי געבירטיג), born Mordecai Bertig (4 May 1877 – 4 June 1942), was an influential Polish Jewish poet and songwriter of the interwar period. He was shot by Germans in the Kraków Ghetto, occupied Poland, during the Holocaust. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mordechai Gebirtig has received more than 67,372 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mordechai Gebirtig is the 940th most popular musician (down from 640th in 2019), the 765th most popular biography from Poland (down from 556th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Polish Musician.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Mordechai Gebirtig ranks 940 out of 3,175. Before him are Simon Le Bon, James Galway, Tommy Aldridge, Sabicas, Carmine Appice, and Johnny Clegg. After him are George Shearing, Bernie Marsden, Suga, Simon Phillips, Holger Czukay, and Zoltán Kocsis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Mordechai Gebirtig ranks 104. Before him are Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Otto Herschmann, William Hope Hodgson, Joanni Perronet, Luigi Maglione, and Giuseppe Volpi. After him are Edmund Gwenn, Elin Pelin, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Lewis Terman, Josephine Hull, and Maurice Farman. Among people deceased in 1942, Mordechai Gebirtig ranks 148. Before him are Francis Younghusband, Alexey Troitsky, Emanuel Feuermann, Xiao Hong, Adolf Mayer, and Zsigmond Móricz. After him are Jack Greenwell, Adolphe Grisel, Daniel Alomía Robles, Ants Piip, Natalya Kovshova, and Joseph Larmor.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Mordechai Gebirtig ranks 765 out of 1,694. Before him are Ludwik Rajchman (1881), Max Weber (1881), Carl Schuricht (1880), Kazimierz Sabbat (1913), Leszek Balcerowicz (1947), and Kazimierz Bein (1872). After him are Zacharias Ursinus (1534), Anna Wierzbicka (1938), Holger Czukay (1938), Katja Ebstein (1945), Jan Kiepura (1902), and Rudolph Maté (1898).

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Among MUSICIANS In Poland

Among musicians born in Poland, Mordechai Gebirtig ranks 16. Before him are Christoph Eschenbach (1940), Bronisław Huberman (1882), Julian Fontana (1810), Julie Guicciardi (1782), Xaver Scharwenka (1850), and Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815). After him are Holger Czukay (1938), Theodor Kullak (1818), Carl Tausig (1841), Ewa Demarczyk (1941), Szymon Goldberg (1909), and Tomasz Stańko (1942).

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