# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/velvel-zbarjer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:52:32.213Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/velvel-zbarjer"
name: "Velvel Zbarjer"
slug: "velvel-zbarjer"
description: "Velvel Zbarjer, birth name Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkrantz, a Galician Jew, was a Brody singer. Following in the footsteps of Berl Broder, his \"mini-melodramas in song\" were precursors of Yiddish theater."
tagline: "Yiddish theatre precursor (1826–1883)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Velvl_Zbarzher.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1826"
deathDate: "1883-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.336501333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c986ef94-51c6-4746-ada6-d131a4d88f7e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welwel_Zbarzer"
    title: "Welwel Zbarzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvel_Zbarjer"
    title: "Velvel Zbarjer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C_%D7%96%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%96'%D7%A8"
    title: "ולוול זבארז'ר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvel_Zbajer"
    title: "Velvel Zbajer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%BB"
    title: "Збаржер, Велвл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%BB_%D0%97%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Велвл Збаржер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1474294"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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