ACTOR

Solomon Mikhoels

1890 - 1948

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Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (Yiddish: שלמה מיכאעלס [also spelled שלוימע מיכאעלס during the Soviet era], Russian: Cоломон (Шлойме) Михоэлс, 16 March [O.S. 4 March] 1890 – 13 January 1948) was a Soviet actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. Mikhoels served as the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during World War II. However, as Joseph Stalin pursued an increasingly anti-Jewish line after the War, Mikhoels's position as a leader of the Jewish community led to increasing persecution from the Soviet state. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Solomon Mikhoels has received more than 161,394 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Solomon Mikhoels is the 1,546th most popular actor (down from 1,366th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Latvia (down from 39th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Solomon Mikhoels by language

Over the past year Solomon Mikhoels has had the most page views in the with 70,268 views, followed by English (23,995), and German (3,639). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (77.73%), Swedish (61.60%), and Yiddish (48.21%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Solomon Mikhoels ranks 1,546 out of 13,578. Before him are Florence Lawrence, Roscoe Arbuckle, Miguel Ferrer, Ben Johnson, John Glover, and Alicia Rhett. After him are Itziar Ituño, Jennifer Coolidge, Ned Beatty, Melissa Leo, Anthony Steffen, and Samantha Fox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Solomon Mikhoels ranks 86. Before him are Sarah Aaronsohn, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Jacobus Oud, Yitzhak Sadeh, Henrich Focke, and Alois Eliáš. After him are Ferruccio Parri, Rachel Bluwstein, Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Claire Lee Chennault, Konstantin Melnikov, and Matome Ugaki. Among people deceased in 1948, Solomon Mikhoels ranks 72. Before him are Therese Brandl, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Harry Dexter White, Manuel Ponce, Arshile Gorky, and Paul Wegener. After him are Fakhri Pasha, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Kâzım Karabekir, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Achille Varzi, and Sabahattin Ali.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Solomon Mikhoels ranks 43 out of 323. Before him are Oswald Külpe (1862), Laimdota Straujuma (1951), Viktors Arājs (1910), Friedrich Zander (1887), Friedrich Kettler (1569), and Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884). After him are Barbara von Krüdener (1764), Maria Amalia of Courland (1653), Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876), Aspazija (1865), Yevgeny Miller (1867), and Eduard Totleben (1818).

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Among ACTORS In Latvia

Among actors born in Latvia, Solomon Mikhoels ranks 1. After him are Elya Baskin (1950), Arkady Raikin (1911), Laima Vaikule (1954), Vija Artmane (1929), Heinz Erhardt (1909), Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov (1948), Rutanya Alda (1942), Indra Devi (1899), Lya Mara (1897), Alvis Hermanis (1965), and Ksenia Solo (1987).

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Television and Movie Roles

Singing in the Dark
Leo, a holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia, comes to the U.S. and works as a hotel desk clerk. One night while a comedian who owns a bar in the hotel gives him a drink, he breaks out in song and discovers a great voice. Under a psychiatrist's treatment, and because of a blow to the head by some hoodlums, he realizes his name is David and that he was the son of a great Jewish Cantor, and gradually recovers his memory of losing his parents. He gives up a promising career singing in nightclubs to return to the synagogue.
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