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I.L. Peretz


Born
in Zamość, Poland
May 18, 1852

Died
April 03, 1915


Isaac Leib Peretz (Polish: Icchok Lejbusz Perec, Hebrew: יצחק־לייבוש פרץ), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz, best known as I. L. Peretz (י"ל פרץ) was born in Poland. He worked as a lawyer before he fully gave himself to writing. His debut was at the age of 27 and he was the first Yiddish author to leave the sjtetl and use the big city, with its poverty, basement houses and factories, as a theme. ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 812 ratings · 130 reviews · 201 distinct works • Similar authors
The I. L. Peretz Reader
4.12 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1990 — 16 editions
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I.L. Peretz: Selected Stories
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Bontshe the Silent (Short S...
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Opowiadania chasydzkie i lu...
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The Golem
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Stories and Pictures
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Jewish Stories: If Not High...
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Between Heaven and Earth: F...
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Martwe miasto i inne opowia...
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“No one in our town ever really died, because no one in our town ever lived, or did good or evil. We had no saints or sinners, only daydreamers in the World of Illusion.”
― I. L. Peretz
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“Antysemityzm, fanatyzm, spirytyzm, to też swego rodzaju epidemie, które kiedyś znajdą swój koniec.”
― I.L. Peretz
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