# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shmuel-niger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:53:04.835Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shmuel-niger"
name: "Shmuel Niger"
slug: "shmuel-niger"
description: "Shmuel Niger was a Yiddish writer, literary critic and historian and was one of the leading figures of Yiddish cultural work and Yiddishism in pre-revolution Russia."
tagline: "Yiddish literary critic (1883-1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shmuel_Niger.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1883-06-15"
deathDate: "1955-12-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.010728
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%92%D7%A2%D7%A8"
    title: "שמואל ניגער"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "شمويل نيجير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Шмуэль Нігер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Niger"
    title: "Samuel Niger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_Niger"
    title: "Shmuel Niger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%92%D7%A8"
    title: "שמואל ניגר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szmuel_Niger"
    title: "Szmuel Niger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A8%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB"
    title: "Нигер, Шмуэл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443990"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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