# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eli-shechtman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:15:40.226Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eli-shechtman"
name: "Eli Shechtman"
slug: "eli-shechtman"
description: "Eli Schechtman was a Yiddish writer. He defined the purpose of his work as follows: \"My mission in Jewish literature was and still is ... to show to those who negate the power of the Galut, how mighty – spiritually and physically – were the generations who grew up in that Galut, even in the most godforsaken places.\""
tagline: "Israeli writer (1908–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eli_Schechtman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-09-08"
deathDate: "1996-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.97
  momentum:             1.01010101010101
  historical:           5.003924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Schechtman"
    title: "Eli Schechtman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%98%D7%9E%D7%9F"
    title: "עלי שכטמן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Schechtman"
    title: "Eli Schechtman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%85%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Шехтман, Эли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%85%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%95%D0%BB%D1%96"
    title: "Шехтман Елі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4523525"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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