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Uri Avnery

1923 - 2018

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Uri Avnery (Hebrew: אורי אבנרי, also transliterated Uri Avneri; 10 September 1923 – 20 August 2018) was a German-born Israeli writer, journalist, politician, and activist, who founded the Gush Shalom peace movement. A member of the Irgun as a teenager and a veteran of the 1948 Palestine war, Avnery sat for two terms in the Knesset from 1965 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1981. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Uri Avnery has received more than 261,618 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Uri Avnery is the 1,841st most popular writer (down from 1,688th in 2019), the 1,938th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,700th in 2019) and the 121st most popular German Writer.

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  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Uri Avnery ranks 1,841 out of 5,755. Before him are Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Alberto Manguel, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Eugenio Barba, Jacques Cazotte, and Anthony Trollope. After him are Charles Maturin, Menander Protector, Naftali Herz Imber, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Frederik Pohl, and Oswald von Wolkenstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Uri Avnery ranks 108. Before him are Uziel Gal, Ernst Nolte, Conrad Bain, Svetozar Gligorić, Wes Montgomery, and Alicia de Larrocha. After him are Richard Pipes, Dexter Gordon, Irvin Kershner, Masao Ono, Vladimir Gelfand, and Cheikh Anta Diop. Among people deceased in 2018, Uri Avnery ranks 102. Before him are Joseph Kobzon, Quini, Dennis Nilsen, Henri Michel, Belisario Betancur, and Nicanor Parra. After him are Bruno Sammartino, Richard Pipes, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Kim Jong-pil, Alan Baker, and Maria Bueno.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Uri Avnery ranks 1,938 out of 6,142. Before him are Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797), Erich Topp (1914), Philipp Lahm (1983), Hermann Paul (1846), Paul Troost (1878), and Friedrich Kellner (1885). After him are Viktor Meyer (1848), Ludwig von Reuter (1869), Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630), Hanns Martin Schleyer (1915), Walter Gotell (1924), and Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (1706).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Uri Avnery ranks 121. Before him are Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901), Sebastian Haffner (1907), Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633), Ludwig Börne (1786), Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773), and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797). After him are Paul Gerhardt (1607), Fred Uhlman (1901), C. W. Ceram (1915), Gustav Schwab (1792), Katia Mann (1883), and Joachim Neander (1650).

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