# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melech-ravitch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:47:21.592Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melech-ravitch"
name: "Melech Ravitch"
slug: "melech-ravitch"
description: "Zechariah Choneh Bergner, better known by his pen name Melech Ravitch, was a Yiddish poet and essayist. Ravitch was one of the world's leading Yiddish literary figures both before and after the Holocaust. His poetry and essays appeared in the international Yiddish press and in anthologies, as well as in translation."
tagline: "Yiddish writer (1893–1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Di_Chaliastre_Mendel_Elkin_Perec_Hirszbajn_Uri_Cwi_Grinberg_Perec_Markisz_Melech_Rawicz_Izrael_Jehoszua_Singer_1922.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893-11-27"
deathDate: "1976-08-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.475522666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "מלך ראוויטש"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melech_Ravitch"
    title: "Melech Ravitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melech_Ravitch"
    title: "Melech Ravitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fc69198b-788b-4e94-a919-93176c8fb295"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melech_Rawicz"
    title: "Melech Rawicz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%96%D7%9B%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%97%D7%A0%D7%90_%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%A2%D7%A8"
    title: "זכריה חנא בערגנער"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7216467"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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