# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hershel-of-ostropol
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:31:17.677Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hershel-of-ostropol"
name: "Hershel of Ostropol"
slug: "hershel-of-ostropol"
description: "Hershel of Ostropol is a prominent figure in Jewish humor. Hershel was a badchen from Ostropol, Crown Poland, who lived in poverty and targeted the rich and powerful, both Jew and Gentile. Common folks were not safe from his shenanigans, either, but usually got off lightly. He is also remembered by Ukrainian Gentiles as something of an ethnic folk hero, who could take on establishment forces much larger than himself with nothing but his humor."
tagline: "Jewish prankster (1757–1811)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1757"
deathDate: "1811"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.85
  momentum:             1.084864391951006
  historical:           8.978945333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://he.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%9C'%D7%94_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A8"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hersch_Ostropoler"
    title: "Hersch Ostropoler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershel_of_Ostropol"
    title: "Hershel of Ostropol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershel_d'Ostropol"
    title: "Hershel d'Ostropol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%9C'%D7%94_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A8"
    title: "הרשל'ה אוסטרופולר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hersch_Ostropoler"
    title: "Hersch Ostropoler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herszele_z_Ostropola_(posta%C4%87)"
    title: "Herszele z Ostropola (postać)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%88"
    title: "Острополер, Герш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5_%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Гершеле Острополер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%A2_%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A2%D7%A8"
    title: "הערשעלע אסטראפאלער"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1614517"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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