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Sholem Asch

1880 - 1957

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Sholem Asch (Yiddish: שלום אַש, Polish: Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sholem Asch has received more than 266,775 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Sholem Asch is the 2,194th most popular writer (up from 2,249th in 2019), the 482nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 483rd in 2019) and the 49th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sholem Asch ranks 2,194 out of 5,755. Before him are Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Matthew Arnold, John Flanagan, Édouard Drumont, and Leonora Christina Ulfeldt. After him are Umberto Saba, Gian Giorgio Trissino, Kenneth Grahame, Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Molla Panah Vagif, and Giraut de Bornelh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Sholem Asch ranks 78. Before him are Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ivar Kreuger, Hermann von Keyserling, Eric Campbell, Jan Kubelík, and Arnold Gesell. After him are Marie Stopes, Carl Van Vechten, Leon Rupnik, Waldemar Bonsels, Kōdō Sawaki, and Archie Hahn. Among people deceased in 1957, Sholem Asch ranks 84. Before him are Irving Baxter, Zhou Xuan, Rudolf Schmidt, Josef Lada, Charles Pathé, and Albert Anastasia. After him are Umberto Saba, Paul Walden, Wilhelm Filchner, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Georges Hébert, and Eugène Schueller.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Sholem Asch ranks 482 out of 1,454. Before him are Richard Courant (1888), Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), Jadwiga of Kalisz (1266), Gerda Steinhoff (1922), Hugo Haase (1863), and Franz Waxman (1906). After him are Karl Gützlaff (1803), Krakus (null), Wanda Wasilewska (1905), Marek Grechuta (1945), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), and Duchess Frederica of Württemberg (1765).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Sholem Asch ranks 49. Before him are Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), Julian Tuwim (1894), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Georg Heym (1887), and Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868). After him are Wanda Wasilewska (1905), Stefan Żeromski (1864), Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), Lidia Zamenhof (1904), Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914), and Tadeusz Różewicz (1921).

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