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Sholem Asch

1880 - 1957

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Sholem Asch (Yiddish: שלום אַש, Polish: Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sholem Asch is the 2,737th most popular writer (down from 2,111th in 2019), the 607th most popular biography from Poland (down from 478th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sholem Asch ranks 2,737 out of 7,302. Before him are Pauline von Metternich, José Giovanni, Branwell Brontë, Philippe de Mornay, Isidora Sekulić, and George Herbert. After him are Giraut de Bornelh, Arnošt Muka, Idris Bitlisi, J. B. Priestley, Donald E. Westlake, and Marcellus of Ancyra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Sholem Asch ranks 101. Before him are Albert W. Hull, Adrian Carton de Wiart, Frigyes Riesz, Ivar Kreuger, Walter Hohmann, and Gabriel Voisin. After him are Leonard Woolf, Philibert Jacques Melotte, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Marie Stopes, Mihail Sadoveanu, and Jeannette Rankin. Among people deceased in 1957, Sholem Asch ranks 106. Before him are Luigi Ganna, Hasui Kawase, Rudolf Weigl, Irving Baxter, Walter Jakobsson, and Katie Johnson. After him are Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Halil Kut, Charles Kay Ogden, José Linhares, Grace Coolidge, and Kiyoshi Shiga.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Sholem Asch ranks 607 out of 1,694. Before him are Joachim Lelewel (1786), Xaver Scharwenka (1850), Moses Isserles (1520), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), Rafał Trzaskowski (1972), and Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727). After him are Mieczysław Rakowski (1926), Michael O. Rabin (1931), Władysław Czartoryski (1828), Krzysztof Wielicki (1950), Szymon Winawer (1838), and Max Factor (1877).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Sholem Asch ranks 61. Before him are Stanisław Konarski (1700), George Adamski (1891), Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (1925), Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909), Ignacy Krasicki (1735), and Tadeusz Różewicz (1921). After him are Isaac Deutscher (1907), Adam Michnik (1946), Alexander Imich (1903), Aleksander Fredro (1793), Zofia Posmysz (1923), and Stefanie Zweig (1932).

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