RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Yisrael Meir Kagan

1838 - 1933

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Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan (February 6, 1838 – September 15, 1933) was an influential Lithuanian Jewish rabbi, Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works continue to be widely influential in Orthodox Jewish life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yisrael Meir Kagan has received more than 172,572 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Yisrael Meir Kagan is the 2,144th most popular religious figure (down from 1,892nd in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 99th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belarusian Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 2,144 out of 3,187. Before him are Subhūti, Peter Jan Beckx, John Leonardi, Francesco Monterisi, Michael IV of Constantinople, and Elio Sgreccia. After him are Karl Leisner, Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev, Benjamin I of Constantinople, Robby Müller, Luigi Poggi, and Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 68. Before him are Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, Siegfried Bing, Emil Rathenau, Thomas Blake Glover, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg, and Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi. After him are James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Karl Davydov, John Hay, Emil Frey, Henry Adams, and Valeriano Weyler. Among people deceased in 1933, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 77. Before him are Lilla Cabot Perry, Mary Ann Bevan, Chen Jiongming, Gustaf Cederström, James J. Corbett, and Boris Rosing. After him are Prince Aribert of Anhalt, Sara Teasdale, Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas, Anastasia Golovina, Robert W. Chambers, and Arnold Mendelssohn.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 116 out of 368. Before him are Romuald Klim (1933), Michael Rohoza (1540), Walery Antoni Wróblewski (1836), Romuald Traugutt (1826), Myechyslaw Hryb (1938), and Immanuel Velikovsky (1895). After him are Leonid Mandelstam (1879), Anna Missuna (1868), Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (1845), Piotr Jaroszewicz (1909), Bryachislav of Polotsk (997), and Roman Golovchenko (1973).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Belarus

Among religious figures born in Belarus, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 6. Before him are Vilna Gaon (1720), Kirill of Turov (1130), Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789), Chaim Kanievsky (1928), and Michael Rohoza (1540). After him are Tadevuš Kandrusievič (1946), Jakub Szynkiewicz (1884), and Aleksandr Kurlovich (1961).

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