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Peretz’s stories layered symbolism and psychological realism
- Peretz’s stories layered symbolism and psychological realism, creating a new literary aesthetic in Yiddish literature. His characters, such as Khaim the Porter or Shmerl the Woodcutter, transcended their poverty and oppression with a faith in a higher reality where justice would prevail even after death.
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They flocked to Peretz’s apartment from all corners of the Russian Empire and created modern Yiddish literature under his guidance. But his influence spread well beyond literature. He inspired an explosion of Jewish creative energy, with artists, folk singers, actors, musicians, and playwrights all drawn to Peretz’s Warsaw.
It’s hard to think of a more influential figure in the history of Yiddish culture than I. L. Peretz. For his own literary and intellectual contributions he has been dubbed one of the three “classic” Yiddish writers, along with Sholem Aleichem and Mendele Mocher Sforim.
Influenced by Polish Neoromantic and Symbolist writings, Peretz lent new expressive force to the Yiddish language in numerous stories collected in such volumes as Bakante bilder (1890; “Familiar Scenes”), Khasidish (1907; “Hasidic”), and Folkstimlekhe geshikhtn (1908; “Folktales”).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
As one of the three founders of modern Yiddish literature, Peretz contributed new ideas where doubt mingled with faith, where symbolism mixed with psychological realism, where traditional stories were retold in a modern context.
- Payson R. Stevens
Aug 30, 2023 · Moreover, Peretz at that point insisted that one of the things that had to happen is that the Bible had to be translated into Yiddish, because if Yiddish was to be a national language of the Jewish people, then you had to bring into it everything of greatest importance.
Aug 7, 2023 · The great Yiddish writer envisioned an unbroken transmission of Jewishness through the generations, from biblical prophets to talmudic sages to literary giants like Heine—and himself.
In January 1971, she gave a lecture on “The Genius of I.L. Peretz” at the Men’s Association of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim breakfast forum, which is now available in our Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library, a collection of recordings from the Jewish Public Library in Montreal.
