SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Abba Kovner

1918 - 1987

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Abba Kovner (Hebrew: אבא קובנר; 14 March 1918 – 25 September 1987) was a Jewish partisan leader, and later Israeli poet and writer. In the Vilna Ghetto, his 1942 manifesto was the first time that a target of the Holocaust identified the German plan to murder all Jews. His attempt to organize a ghetto uprising failed. He fled into the forest, joined Soviet partisans, and survived the war. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abba Kovner is the 248th most popular social activist (down from 211th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 53rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Abba Kovner ranks 248 out of 840. Before him are Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Huber Matos, Jan Gotlib Bloch, David Riazanov, Narges Mohammadi, and Jean Ziegler. After him are Kate Sheppard, Peter Nguyen Van Hung, Leymah Gbowee, Edward Snowden, Djamila Bouhired, and Haim Arlosoroff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Abba Kovner ranks 102. Before him are Antonín Mrkos, Huber Matos, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Ben Johnson, William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, and Henry Calvin. After him are Lo Wei, Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Ida Lupino, Borys Paton, and Ajahn Chah. Among people deceased in 1987, Abba Kovner ranks 73. Before him are Naji al-Ali, Alejandro Scopelli, Masatoshi Nakayama, Seyni Kountché, Mervyn LeRoy, and He Yingqin. After him are Anny Ondra, Danny Kaye, Konstantinos Tsatsos, Bengt Strömgren, Andrei Mironov, and Morton Feldman.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Abba Kovner ranks 60 out of 368. Before him are Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł (1512), Mikhail Borodin (1884), Otto Schmidt (1891), Lew Sapieha (1557), Dawid Janowski (1868), and Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł (1515). After him are Oscar Milosz (1877), Kazimierz Łyszczyński (1634), Antoine Pevsner (1884), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), Alexander Orlov (1895), and Euphrosyne of Polotsk (1110).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Belarus

Among social activists born in Belarus, Abba Kovner ranks 2. Before him are Alexander Parvus (1867). After him are Ignacy Hryniewiecki (1856), Vasily Ignatenko (1961), Tuvia Bielski (1906), Roman Protasevich (1995), Valery Levaneuski (1963), and Veronika Tsepkalo (1976).

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