Bontshe the Silent (Short Story Index Reprint Series)

by I.L. Peretz

English, Yiddish (translation)

259 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1971

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Tim Beck · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short story about silence and justice. What is the proper response?

[Sallis · Rating 5 out of 5]

May we all seek the joy of, simply, a hot buttered roll

[juu__ · Rating 1 out of 5]

for school, and hated it tbh

[Jingyi Wang · Rating 5 out of 5]

A silence falls upon the great hall, and it is more terrible than Bontshe's has ever been, and slowly the judge and angels bend their heads in shame at this unending meekness they have created on earth. Then the silence is shattered. The prosecutor laughs aloud, a bitter laugh.