# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/menachem-friedman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:19:10.747Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/menachem-friedman"
name: "Menachem Friedman"
slug: "menachem-friedman"
description: "Menachem Friedman was an Israeli Emeritus Professor of sociology at Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan. His expertise was religion and the confrontations between religious and secular Judaism in modern history. He also studied the modern process of Halachic decision making. Friedman was considered one of the leading researchers of Haredi Judaism."
tagline: "Israeli Emeritus Professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Menachem_Friedman.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-12-02"
deathDate: "2020-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.608532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "مناحيم فريدمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מנחם פרידמן"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Friedman"
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    title: "Menachem Friedman"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6816365"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump