# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arkady-gendler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:55:12.726Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arkady-gendler"
name: "Arkady Gendler"
slug: "arkady-gendler"
description: "Arkady Gendler was a Ukrainian Yiddish-language singer, composer, and folk song collector. Born in Romania, he lived most of his life in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, and only became known internationally as a Yiddish singer after Perestroika. In the early 21st century he was considered a living link to the prewar Romanian and Soviet Yiddish musical worlds."
tagline: "Ukrainian Jewish singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pencil_portrait_of_Yiddish_singer_Arkady_Gendler.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1921-11-29"
deathDate: "2017-05-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.51
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.003852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 108
platforms:
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb7R9CLa3q-iLqNCC3bWgWw"
    handle:    "Arkady Gendler - Topic"
    followers: 108
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4541902"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Gendler"
    title: "Arkady Gendler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Gendler"
    title: "Arkady Gendler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Gendler"
    title: "Arkady Gendler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkadi_Gendler"
    title: "Arkadi Gendler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%90%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D0%A5%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Гендлер, Абрам Хунович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%A5%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Гендлер Аркадій Хунович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9d7bf5bf-0db6-4d42-b969-df195ba11bea"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q630256"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump