WRITER

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 283,342 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Uri Avnery is the 1,611th most popular writer (up from 1,837th in 2019), the 1,709th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,936th in 2019) and the 108th most popular German Writer.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.96

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  • 2.48

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Notable Works

My friend, the enemy
History
Om hemmelige kontakter mellem israelere og PLO.
1986
Reale Utopien
2008
Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue
1994
Chronique d'un pacifiste israélien pendant l'intifada (Octobre 2000-septembre 2002)
2002
Mein Freund, der Feind
1988
Israel's vicious circle
History
Ten years of writings from the well-known Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery.
2008

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Uri Avnery ranks 1,611 out of 7,302. Before him are Dick Bruna, Philip José Farmer, Petar Kočić, Eileen Chang, Peter Altenberg, and Pacuvius. After him are Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Marie de Gournay, Aharon Appelfeld, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Pierre Reverdy, and Alice Walker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Uri Avnery ranks 89. Before him are Zarifa Aliyeva, Ousmane Sembène, Valentina Cortese, André Gorz, Richard Pipes, and Yaşar Kemal. After him are Rudolph A. Marcus, Uziel Gal, Bettie Page, Otfried Preußler, Masao Ono, and Sergey Akhromeyev. Among people deceased in 2018, Uri Avnery ranks 82. Before him are Samir Amin, Whitey Bulger, James Mirrlees, Odvar Nordli, Richard Pipes, and Robert Faurisson. After him are Hayden White, Aharon Appelfeld, Fernando del Paso, Keith O'Brien, Oliver Dragojević, and Kim Jong-pil.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Uri Avnery ranks 1,709 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Albert (1921), Joschka Fischer (1948), Andreas Achenbach (1815), Gisela of Swabia (990), Hans Berger (1873), and Christian Thielemann (1959). After him are Albrecht Penck (1858), Maurice de Hirsch (1831), Michael Stifel (1487), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Berthold (1180), and Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (1721).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Uri Avnery ranks 108. Before him are Heiner Müller (1929), Stéphane Hessel (1917), Salvian (405), Eduard Mörike (1804), Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752), and Gustav Landauer (1870). After him are Sebastian Haffner (1907), Ludwig Börne (1786), Christian Morgenstern (1871), Martin Walser (1927), Basil Valentine (1394), and Hans F. K. Günther (1891).

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