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I. L. Peretz. 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. Payson R. Stevens, Charles M. Levine, and Sol Steinmetz count him with Mendele Mokher Seforim and ...
I. I. L. Peretz was born in the Polish town of Zamosc, a lively and noisy place with a multi-lingual culture. Russian troops were stationed in the town, German merchants passed through frequently. While the Peretz family, apparently Sephardic in origin, was traditionally pious, the father, a prosperous merchant, had acquired some liberal ideas ...
Peretz stands out among writers of the Haskole for the high degree of respect he shows for the Hasidic tradition and for the rebbe as moral and spiritual leader. In “If Not Higher!,” he uses this figure to make a case for ethical action that might appeal to both religious and secular Jews. This guide provides text and audio excerpts from ...
May 21, 2024 · The name Peretz is Hebrew and means “breakthrough.”. It is a perfect name for the man who breaches into and improves our thoughts. I consider Peretz’s story “If Not Higher” the best of ...
- Israel Drazin
We may well ask ourselves how it was that Peretz did not become completely addled. Many a young Jew in similar circumstances did. One thinks with awe of the Niagaras of intellectual energy that ran to waste in that one small human area, and of the souls that were carried to destruction by the torrents. Peretz crossed those rapids in safety.
In this lecture by Yiddish Book Center founder and president Aaron Lansky, the two great Yiddish authors are put into comparative perspective. Listen to a lecture by Aaron Lansky. November 12, 2023 - It’s hard to think of a more influential figure in the history of Yiddish culture than I. L. Peretz. Read to learn about Peretz and his world.
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Yitzkhok Leybush Peretz was born in 1852 in Zamość, a small city in S.E. Poland, to a prominent Orthodox family and by six years of age had already begun to study the Talmud. Recognized as a prodigy, he was expected to become a revered Rabbi or a great Jewish scholar, but as a young teenager was given the key to a private library of ...
