WRITER

Uri Orlev

1931 - 2022

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Uri Orlev (Hebrew: אורי אורלב; 24 February 1931 – 26 July 2022) born Jerzy Henryk Orłowski, was a Polish-born Israeli children's author and translator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Uri Orlev has received more than 100,763 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Uri Orlev is the 1,892nd most popular writer (up from 2,448th in 2019), the 428th most popular biography from Poland (up from 531st in 2019) and the 39th most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The island on bird street
1981
Ruts, yeled, ruts
Juvenile Fiction
Based on a true story, Srulik, an eight-year-old boy, escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside. An ALA Notable Book for Children. Reprint.
20014 / 5
The lady with the hat
Juvenile Fiction
Seventeen-year-old Yulek, having survived the concentration camps of the Holocaust, prepares for kibbutz life in Palestine, while his long-lost Aunt Malka, married to a Christian, attempts to find him. By the author of Lydia, Queen of Palestine.
19954 / 5
Ḥayale-ʻOferet
1967
The Island on Bird Street
Juvenile Fiction
During World War II, a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constant life-threatening conditions.
19844 / 5
Ish min ha-tsad ha-aḥer
1991

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Uri Orlev ranks 1,892 out of 7,302. Before him are Shirley Jackson, Hierocles of Alexandria, Marko Vovchok, Ion of Chios, Handrij Zejler, and Henrik Wergeland. After him are Brian Aldiss, Augustin Barruel, Valery Bryusov, Nora Ephron, Begum Rokeya, and Colin Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Uri Orlev ranks 129. Before him are Zeki Müren, Margarita Lozano, Marianne Koch, Masaaki Hatsumi, Haya Harareet, and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. After him are Colin Wilson, Shadia, Claire Bloom, Ken Takakura, Rip Torn, and John Milnor. Among people deceased in 2022, Uri Orlev ranks 126. Before him are Christine McVie, Dan McCafferty, Shintaro Ishihara, Margarita Lozano, Anne Heche, and Walter Schröder. After him are Mario Terán, Christos Sartzetakis, Alain Tanner, Tony Sirico, Piet Schrijvers, and Yuri Averbakh.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Uri Orlev ranks 428 out of 1,694. Before him are Walerian Borowczyk (1923), Alexandre Tansman (1897), Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (1860), Vitello (1230), Jerzy Hoffman (1932), and Sendivogius (1566). After him are Anna Leszczyńska (1699), Andrew Bobola (1591), Christoph Eschenbach (1940), Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg (1693), Beata Szydło (1963), and Hans Woellke (1911).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Uri Orlev ranks 39. Before him are Avraham Stern (1907), Andreas Gryphius (1616), Martin Opitz (1597), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), I. L. Peretz (1852), and Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868). After him are Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Julian Tuwim (1894), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Maria Konopnicka (1842), Cyprian Norwid (1821), and Sholem Asch (1880).

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