# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mordechai-gebirtig
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:02:00.270Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mordechai-gebirtig"
name: "Mordechai Gebirtig"
slug: "mordechai-gebirtig"
description: "Mordechai Gebirtig, born Mordecai Bertig, was an influential Polish Jewish poet and songwriter of the interwar period. He was shot by Germans in the Kraków Ghetto, occupied Poland, during the Holocaust. A number of his Yiddish songs are sung to this day, including Es brent, Reyzele, Moyshele Mayn Fraynd, and Kinder Yorn."
tagline: "Yiddish writer (1877–1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mordechaj_Gebirtig.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1877-05-04"
deathDate: "1942-06-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.96836133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 29
platforms:
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    url:       "http://mordechaj-gebirtig.pl/"
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    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClKp7AtfB8Pxy1LWKOgN-cQ"
    handle:    "Mordechai Gebirtig - Topic"
    followers: 29
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump