# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eliakum-zunser
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:49:04.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eliakum-zunser"
name: "Eliakum Zunser"
slug: "eliakum-zunser"
description: "Eliakum Zunser was a Lithuanian Jewish Yiddish-language poet, songwriter, and badchen who lived out the last part of his life in the U.S. A 1905 article in The New York Times lauded him as \"the father of Yiddish poetry\". About a quarter of his roughly 600 songs survive. He influenced and was influenced by Brody singer Velvel Zbarzher, although it is not believed that they ever met."
tagline: "Lithuanian Yiddish writer (1840–1913)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%96%D7%A8.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1836-10-13"
deathDate: "1913-09-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.68
  momentum:             1.621621621621621
  historical:           7.871814666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a7bffb0a-f26f-49cd-9266-92a0d75b1476"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B1"
    title: "الياكوم زونسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliakum_Zunser"
    title: "Eliakum Zunser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliakum_Zunser"
    title: "Eliakum Zunser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliakum_Zunser"
    title: "Eliakum Zunser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliakum_Zunser"
    title: "Eliakum Zunser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%96%D7%A8"
    title: "אליקום צונזר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%8E%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%82_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%BA%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%BC"
    title: "എലിയകം സൺസർ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliakum_Zunser"
    title: "Eliakum Zunser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1328946"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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