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Mordechai Gebirtig

1877 - 1942

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Mordechai Gebirtig (Yiddish: מרדכי געבירטיג), born Mordecai Bertig (4 May 1877 – 4 June 1942), was an influential Polish Jewish poet and songwriter of the interwar period. He was shot by Germans in the Kraków Ghetto, occupied Poland, during the Holocaust. A number of his Yiddish songs are sung to this day, including Es brent, Reyzele, Moyshele Mayn Fraynd, and Kinder Yorn. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mordechai Gebirtig is the 943rd most popular musician (down from 941st in 2019), the 742nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 765th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Polish Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Mordechai Gebirtig ranks 943 out of 3,175. Before him are Yakov Zak, Nikolai Noskov, Scott Travis, Lili Kraus, Michael Weikath, and Charlie Haden. After him are Jean-Baptiste Arban, Willie Dixon, T-Bone Walker, Ignaz Brüll, Teddy Wilson, and Layne Staley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Mordechai Gebirtig ranks 103. Before him are Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Georg Kolbe, Giuseppe Pizzardo, William Hope Hodgson, Edmund Gwenn, and Mari Beyleryan. After him are Camillo Caccia Dominioni, Luigi Maglione, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Giuseppe Volpi, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, and Filippos Karvelas. Among people deceased in 1942, Mordechai Gebirtig ranks 132. Before him are Yakov Perelman, Sébastien Faure, Emma Calvé, Olena Teliha, Georgios Orphanidis, and Heinrich Burger. After him are Roberto Arlt, Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Wojciech Kossak, Daniel Alomía Robles, Jack Greenwell, and Vladislav Vančura.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Mordechai Gebirtig ranks 742 out of 1,694. Before him are Paul Kletzki (1900), Julian Fontana (1810), Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg (1761), Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1522), Leszek Balcerowicz (1947), and Józef Bilczewski (1860). After him are Kurt Feldt (1897), Leon Wyczółkowski (1852), Basia (1954), Robert Gadocha (1946), Hugo von Seeliger (1849), and Alina Szapocznikow (1926).

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Among MUSICIANS In Poland

Among musicians born in Poland, Mordechai Gebirtig ranks 16. Before him are Julie Guicciardi (1782), Josef Hofmann (1876), Christoph Eschenbach (1940), Bronisław Huberman (1882), Xaver Scharwenka (1850), and Julian Fontana (1810). After him are Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815), Theodor Kullak (1818), Holger Czukay (1938), Tomasz Stańko (1942), Szymon Goldberg (1909), and Ewa Demarczyk (1941).

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