WRITER

Tony Cliff

1917 - 2000

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Tony Cliff (born Yigael Glückstein, Hebrew: יגאל גליקשטיין; 20 May 1917 – 9 April 2000) was a Trotskyist activist. Born to a Jewish family in Ottoman Palestine, he moved to Britain in 1947 and by the end of the 1950s had assumed the pen name of Tony Cliff. A founding member of the Socialist Review Group, which became the International Socialists and then the Socialist Workers Party, in 1977. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tony Cliff has received more than 225,846 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Tony Cliff is the 4,987th most popular writer (down from 4,871st in 2019), the 283rd most popular biography from Israel (down from 256th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Israeli Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

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  • 54.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tony Cliff ranks 4,987 out of 7,302. Before him are Hellmuth Karasek, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Károly Kisfaludy, Platon Oyunsky, Fernando Vallejo, and Þjóðólfr of Hvinir. After him are Kenneth Copeland, Bernard Clavel, Johann Gottfried Seume, Rosa Chacel, Latifa al-Zayyat, and Peter F. Hamilton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Tony Cliff ranks 255. Before him are Edgar Barth, Phyllis Diller, William P. Gottlieb, Durward Knowles, Gösta Andersson, and Kenkichi Iwasawa. After him are Richard Boone, Pavel Solovyov, Luigi Cantone, Freddie Francis, Nils Karlsson, and Larry O'Brien. Among people deceased in 2000, Tony Cliff ranks 223. Before him are Hélène Prévost, Vicente Asensi, Viktor Kolotov, Laila Kinnunen, Kirsty MacColl, and Vincentas Sladkevičius. After him are Spyridon Chazapis, Georgiy Gongadze, Corneliu Mănescu, Adelaida Avagyan, Tofig Guliyev, and Egon Jönsson.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Tony Cliff ranks 283 out of 466. Before him are Mili Avital (1972), Ronit Elkabetz (1964), Saharon Shelah (1945), Yasmin Levy (1975), Avraham Burg (1955), and Benny Hinn (1952). After him are Ora Namir (1930), Yardena Arazi (1951), Eli Cohen (1972), Menachem Bello (1947), Shlomo Artzi (1949), and Uri Ariel (1952).

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Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, Tony Cliff ranks 17. Before him are Meir Shalev (1948), Gideon Levy (1953), Etgar Keret (1967), Emile Habibi (1922), Amira Hass (1956), and Zeruya Shalev (1959). After him are Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1926), Leigh Bardugo (1975), Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936), Yehoshua Kenaz (1937), Rami Saari (1963), and Nadav Lapid (1975).

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