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S. Ansky

1863 - 1920

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Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport (1863 – November 8, 1920), also known by his pen name S. An-sky, was a Jewish author, playwright, researcher of Jewish folklore, polemicist, and cultural and political activist. He is best known for his play The Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds, written in 1914, and for Di Shvue, the anthem of the Jewish socialist Bund. In 1912-1914, he led the Jewish Ethnographic Expedition to the Pale of Settlement. In 1917, after the Russian Revolution, he was elected to the Russian Constituent Assembly as a Social-Revolutionary deputy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. S. Ansky is the 1,627th most popular writer (up from 2,008th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 64th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belarusian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, S. Ansky ranks 1,627 out of 7,302. Before him are Hannah Szenes, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Ludwig Börne, Jacques Amyot, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, and Robert Jordan. After him are Rodulfus Glaber, Lycophron, Wen Tianxiang, Ira Levin, Michael Moorcock, and Giovanni Francesco Straparola.

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Among people born in 1863, S. Ansky ranks 50. Before him are Henry Royce, Albert Calmette, Ludwig Borchardt, Andrés Bonifacio, Hermann Bahr, and Mary Jane Kelly. After him are Manuel Gomes da Costa, Gabriel Pierné, Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, W. I. Thomas, and Alexander Siloti. Among people deceased in 1920, S. Ansky ranks 34. Before him are Max Klinger, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Abraham Kuyper, Prince Joachim of Prussia, Otto Gross, and Mikhail Eisenstein. After him are Fatali Khan Khoyski, Norman Lockyer, Lothar von Trotha, Odoardo Beccari, Levi P. Morton, and Vladimir Purishkevich.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, S. Ansky ranks 47 out of 368. Before him are Aleksei Antonov (1896), Yakov Zeldovich (1914), Salomon Maimon (1754), Francysk Skaryna (1486), Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745), and Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841). After him are Lucjan Żeligowski (1865), Vseslav of Polotsk (1029), Paul Baran (1926), Yevno Azef (1869), Ignacy Domeyko (1802), and Fyodor Kuznetsov (1898).

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Among WRITERS In Belarus

Among writers born in Belarus, S. Ansky ranks 6. Before him are Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), Yanka Kupala (1882), Yakub Kolas (1882), Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835), and Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841). After him are Oscar Milosz (1877), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), Bella Rosenfeld (1889), Vasil Bykaŭ (1924), Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), and Ales Adamovich (1927).

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