# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shmerke-kaczerginsky
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:49:26.596Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shmerke-kaczerginsky"
name: "Shmerke Kaczerginsky"
slug: "shmerke-kaczerginsky"
description: "Shmaryahu \"Shmerke\" Kaczerginski was a Yiddish poet, musician, writer and cultural activist. Born to a poor family in Vilna and orphaned at a young age, Kaczerginski was educated at the local Talmud Torah and night school, where he became involved in communist politics and was regularly beaten or imprisoned."
tagline: "Polish poet (1908–1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shmerke_Kaczerginski(cropped).jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-10-28"
deathDate: "1954-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.12
  momentum:             1.428571428571429
  historical:           7.882326666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/73657d54-59d1-4f2c-9d9b-fafc1a50a7a1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "شميركى كاكزيرجينسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmerke_Kaczerginski"
    title: "Shmerke Kaczerginski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmerke_Kaczerginski"
    title: "Shmerke Kaczerginski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmerke_Kaczerginski"
    title: "Shmerke Kaczerginski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%94_%D7%A7%D7%A6'%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%99"
    title: "שמרקה קצ'רגינסקי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szmerke_Kaczergi%C5%84ski"
    title: "Szmerke Kaczergiński"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%2C_%D0%A8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5"
    title: "Качергинский, Шмерке"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%A2_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%98%D7%A9%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%99"
    title: "שמערקע קאטשערגינסקי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4217964"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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