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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Yisrael Meir Kagan

1838 - 1933

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Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan (January 26, 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 159,419 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Yisrael Meir Kagan is the 1,907th most popular religious figure, the 99th most popular biography from Belarus and the 3rd most popular Belarusian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 1,907 out of 2,238Before him are Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, Kurt Koch, Karl Leisner, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, and Victor and Corona. After him are Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Benedict Biscop, Paul I of Constantinople, Georg Gänswein, Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, and Hans Hermann Groër.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 62Before him are August Šenoa, Victoria Woodhull, Marianne Cope, Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, Karl Davydov, and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, Emil Rathenau, Paul Mauser, Thomas Blake Glover, Valeriano Weyler, and John Hay. Among people deceased in 1933, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 61Before him are Albert Apponyi, Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt, Toktogul Satylganov, Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, Robert T. A. Innes, and Arnold Mendelssohn. After him are Boris Rosing, Chen Jiongming, Zacharia Paliashvili, Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas, James J. Corbett, and Prince Aribert of Anhalt.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 99 out of 330Before him are Pyotr Klimuk (1942), Carl Anton von Meyer (1795), Vasily Ignatenko (1961), Zivia Lubetkin (1914), Ivonka Survilla (1936), and David Sarnoff (1891). After him are Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758), Benedykt Dybowski (1833), Lev Polugaevsky (1934), Bryachislav of Polotsk (997), Walery Antoni Wróblewski (1836), and Leonid Mandelstam (1879).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Belarus

Among religious figures born in Belarus, Yisrael Meir Kagan ranks 3Before him are Vilna Gaon (1720) and Kirill of Turov (1130). After him are Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789), Tadevuš Kandrusievič (1946), and Aleksandr Kurlovich (1961).