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Sholem Schwarzbard

1886 - 1938

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Samuel "Sholem" Schwarzbard (Russian: Самуил Исаакович Шварцбурд, romanized: Samuil Isaakovich Shvartsburd; Yiddish: שלום שװאַרצבאָרד; French: Samuel 'Sholem' Schwarzbard; 18 August 1886 – 3 March 1938) was a Russian-French Yiddish poet. He served in the French and Soviet military, was a communist and anarchist, and is known for organising Jewish community defense against pogroms in the pre-First World War era and the Russian Civil War era in Ukraine, and for the assassination of Ukrainian nationalist leader Symon Petliura in 1926. He wrote poetry in Yiddish under the pen name of Baal-Khaloymes (English: The Dreamer). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sholem Schwarzbard is the 2,301st most popular writer (down from 1,983rd in 2019), the 337th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 293rd in 2019) and the 44th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sholem Schwarzbard ranks 2,301 out of 7,302. Before him are Camilla Collett, Constantine Manasses, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nennius, Jaan Kaplinski, and Olga Rozanova. After him are Mak Dizdar, Stefania Wilczyńska, Winston Groom, Alfred Bester, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, and Laura Esquivel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Sholem Schwarzbard ranks 104. Before him are Victor McLaglen, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Wilhelm Marschall, Frank Nitti, Olga Rozanova, and Hans von Obstfelder. After him are George Cœdès, Stefania Wilczyńska, Victor Boin, Princess Patricia of Connaught, Salvatore Maranzano, and Ernst Robert Curtius. Among people deceased in 1938, Sholem Schwarzbard ranks 88. Before him are Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, Branislaw Tarashkyevich, William Wallace Campbell, and James Scott. After him are Octavian Goga, Kazimierz Twardowski, Bernd Rosemeyer, John Bates Clark, Otto von Lossow, and Ante Trumbić.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Sholem Schwarzbard ranks 337 out of 1,365. Before him are Maya Deren (1917), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Theodosius of Kiev (1029), Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877), and Michał Boym (1614). After him are Yuri Knorozov (1922), Zbigniew Cybulski (1927), Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Pavel Rybalko (1894), Arkady Luxemburg (1939), and Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Sholem Schwarzbard ranks 44. Before him are Ahad Ha'am (1856), Vasyl Stus (1938), Vsevolod Garshin (1855), Tadeusz Borowski (1922), Zbigniew Herbert (1924), and Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864). After him are Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), Aharon Appelfeld (1932), Mikołaj Rej (1505), Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875), Israel Zolli (1881), and Dmytro Dontsov (1883).

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