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Abraham Goldfaden

1840 - 1908

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Abraham Goldfaden (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם גאָלדפֿאַדען; born Avrum Goldnfoden; 24 July 1840 – 9 January 1908), also known as Avram Goldfaden, was a Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in Yiddish and Hebrew languages and author of some 40 plays. Goldfaden is considered the father of modern Jewish theatre. In 1876 he founded in the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia what is generally credited as the world's first professional Yiddish-language theatre troupe. He was also responsible for the first Hebrew-language play performed in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abraham Goldfaden is the 2,977th most popular writer (up from 3,110th in 2019), the 431st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 459th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among writers, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 2,977 out of 7,302. Before him are Pierre Souvestre, Fatma Aliye Topuz, Fumiko Hayashi, Salimbene di Adam, Mahasweta Devi, and Marija Jurić Zagorka. After him are Robert de Nola, Dracontius, Tom Sharpe, Willibald Pirckheimer, L. Sprague de Camp, and Félix Fénéon.

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Among people born in 1840, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 49. Before him are Akaki Tsereteli, Édouard André, Alexander Kovalevsky, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Gabriel von Max, and Dmitry Pisarev. After him are Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Edmond Audran, Jeanna Bauck, William Graham Sumner, Thomas Nast, and Helena Modjeska. Among people deceased in 1908, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 53. Before him are Edward MacDowell, Nikolai Linevich, Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Giovanni Fattori, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and Cut Nyak Dhien. After him are Georgy Voronoy, Charles Chamberland, Holger Drachmann, Thomas Hill, Heinrich Hübschmann, and Karl Möbius.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 431 out of 1,365. Before him are Onufriy (1944), Leonid Kizim (1941), Grigory Shtern (1900), Georges Florovsky (1893), Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874), and Maximilian Voloshin (1877). After him are Georgy Voronoy (1868), Ber Borochov (1881), Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896), Iosif Shklovsky (1916), Aleksandar Malinov (1867), and Agenor Maria Gołuchowski (1849).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Abraham Goldfaden ranks 56. Before him are Dmytro Dontsov (1883), Rose Ausländer (1901), Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (1819), Pavlo Tychyna (1891), Valentin Kataev (1897), and Maximilian Voloshin (1877). After him are Leone Ginzburg (1909), Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894), Lev Kopelev (1912), Panteleimon Kulish (1819), Maksym Rylsky (1895), and Olena Pchilka (1849).

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