# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leyb-gorfinkel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:51:41.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leyb-gorfinkel"
name: "Leyb Gorfinkel"
slug: "leyb-gorfinkel"
description: "Leyb Gorfinkel was an advocate, journalist, and politician. He was of Lithuanian and later of Israeli nationality."
tagline: "Lithuanian Jewish activist, politician, journalist, Holocaust survivor (1896-1976)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/Leyb_Gorfinkel.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1896-03-14"
deathDate: "1976-09-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.469834666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%9C"
    title: "לייב גרפונקל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ليب جورفينكيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyb_Gorfinkel"
    title: "Leyb Gorfinkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%84%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B1"
    title: "Гарфункель, Лейб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyb_Gorfinkel"
    title: "Leyb Gorfinkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lejb_Garfunkel"
    title: "Lejb Garfunkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11753852"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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