WRITER

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 276,800 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Sholem Asch is the 2,112th most popular writer (up from 2,187th in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from Poland (up from 482nd in 2019) and the 45th most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Salvation
1934
Man fun Natseres̀
Fiction, Bible, History of Biblical events
1939
Farn mabul
Yiddish literature
1929
Dramaṭishe shrifṭn
Accessible book
1922
Onḳl Mozes
1918
Moṭḳe ganev
1916
The God of Vengeance; Drama in Three Acts
2017
East River
Fiction, general, Jews, Fiction
1946
Salvation
Fiction, historical, general, Jews, fiction
1934
Onḳl Mozes
1918
Moṭḳe ganev
1916
Man fun Natseres̀
Fiction, Bible, History of Biblical events
1939

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sholem Asch ranks 2,112 out of 7,302. Before him are Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael Choniates, Patrick O'Brian, D. R. Bendre, Ramón Sampedro, and Gaston Paris. After him are James Herbert Brennan, Orderic Vitalis, John Kennedy Toole, Consort Ban, Tadeusz Borowski, and Dexippus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Sholem Asch ranks 78. Before him are Begum Rokeya, Ida Dalser, Leon Rupnik, Joseph Trumpeldor, Ivar Kreuger, and Tod Browning. After him are Leonard Woolley, Eric Lemming, Eric Campbell, Hermann von Keyserling, Ildebrando Pizzetti, and Lincoln Ellsworth. Among people deceased in 1957, Sholem Asch ranks 85. Before him are Eugenio Castellotti, Shūmei Ōkawa, Irving Baxter, Hasui Kawase, Álvaro Gestido, and Rudolf Schmidt. After him are Prince Franz of Bavaria, Rudolf Weigl, Wilhelm Filchner, Umberto Saba, Paja Jovanović, and Gheorghe Tătărescu.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Sholem Asch ranks 478 out of 1,694. Before him are Cyprian Norwid (1821), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Walther von Lüttwitz (1859), Elisabeth Hevelius (1647), Zawisza Czarny (1379), and Beata Tyszkiewicz (1938). After him are Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann (1818), Helene Deutsch (1884), Stefania Wilczyńska (1886), Kurt Goldstein (1878), Symon Budny (1530), and Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Sholem Asch ranks 45. Before him are Uri Orlev (1931), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Julian Tuwim (1894), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Maria Konopnicka (1842), and Cyprian Norwid (1821). After him are Stefania Wilczyńska (1886), Alexander Imich (1903), Piotr Skarga (1536), Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), and Israel Joshua Singer (1893).

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