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- Peretz was born to a relatively well-to-do family in the New York City borough of the Bronx. In his childhood and teenage years, he experienced his first major disagreement, in which he clashed with his father. But it is also through his family that he absorbed ardent loyalty to his Jewishness and to Israel.
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Isaac Leib Peretz (Polish: Icchok Lejbusz Perec, Yiddish: יצחק־לייבוש פרץ) (May 18, 1852 – April 3, 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz was a Polish Jewish writer and playwright writing in Yiddish.
Aug 30, 2023 · He’s never happy about his conversion, and he writes often on Jewish themes, even though that’s what he’s not best known for. And he is a very talented humorist and perhaps the greatest ironist ever.
To encourage Jews toward a wider knowledge of secular subjects, Peretz for several years wrote articles on physics, chemistry, economics, and other subjects for Di yudishe bibliotek (1891–95; “The Jewish Library”), which he also edited.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
His writing was a call for self-determination and resistance against Jewish humiliation. Peretz was ultimately an optimist who believed that progress was the path to greater Jewish freedom and enlightenment. He understood that shtetl Jews had to examine and alter their beliefs in order for them to be emancipated.
- Payson R. Stevens
May 21, 2024 · The Polish Jewish writer and playwright I. L. Peretz (1852-1915, died at age 62), who wrote in Yiddish, is considered by many to have been one of the three great classical Yiddish writers...
- Israel Drazin
Aug 7, 2023 · If Peretz tells us that he is Monish, did he think that he had betrayed Jewishness to deserve this punishment? Why would he launch his Yiddish literary career—and then his memoir—with the story of his damnation?
That year, the czarist authorities took away Peretz’s law license after he was denounced as a radical. At the same time, he turned away from Hebrew and toward Yiddish in his writing and published “Monish,” the darkly transgressive ballad about a yeshiva student that made Peretz’s reputation.
