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Naftali Herz Imber

1856 - 1909

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Naftali Herz Imber (Hebrew: נפתלי הרץ אימבר‎, Yiddish: נפתלי הערץ אימבער‎; December 27, 1856 – October 8, 1909) was a Jewish Hebrew-language poet, most notable for writing "Hatikvah", the poem that became the basis for the Israeli national anthem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Naftali Herz Imber has received more than 120,869 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Naftali Herz Imber is the 1,453rd most popular writer (up from 1,840th in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 259th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 120k

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  • 58.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Naftali Herz Imber ranks 1,453 out of 7,302. Before him are Thomas of Celano, Henry Steel Olcott, Arnold van Gennep, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger, Jules Laforgue, and Sławomir Mrożek. After him are Hovhannes Tumanyan, Maryse Condé, Paul Rée, Elizabeth George, Phrynichus, and Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Naftali Herz Imber ranks 35. Before him are Mikhail Vrubel, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Stepa Stepanović, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Sergei Taneyev, and Hara Takashi. After him are Henri-Edmond Cross, Maurice Sarrail, Émile Picard, Pedro Lascuráin, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, and Mahmud Shevket Pasha. Among people deceased in 1909, Naftali Herz Imber ranks 24. Before him are Francisco Ferrer, Carlos, Duke of Madrid, Red Cloud, Paul Gachet, Abdul Karim, and Princess Marie of Orléans. After him are Arnold Janssen, Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Simon Newcomb, Ludwig Gumplowicz, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Caran d'Ache.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Naftali Herz Imber ranks 203 out of 1,365. Before him are Wojciech Kilar (1932), Yaropolk II of Kiev (1082), Paul Muni (1895), Mykola Lysenko (1842), Kirill Moskalenko (1902), and Olga Khokhlova (1891). After him are Michael of Chernigov (1185), Valentina Matviyenko (1949), Natalia Sedova (1882), Erwin Chargaff (1905), Angelica Balabanoff (1878), and Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1582).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Naftali Herz Imber ranks 30. Before him are Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769), and Władysław Tarnowski (1836). After him are Vladimir Korolenko (1853), Aharon Appelfeld (1932), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), David Burliuk (1882), Adam Zagajewski (1945), and Vasyl Stus (1938).

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