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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.
May 14, 2024 · I.L. Peretz (born May 18, 1852, Zamość, Poland, Russian Empire—died April 3, 1915, Warsaw) was a prolific writer of poems, short stories, drama, humorous sketches, and satire who was instrumental in raising the standard of Yiddish literature to a high level.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
I.L. Peretz (1851-1915) is the third of the great classical Yiddish writers [along with Mendele Mokher Seforim and Sholom Aleichem] and the one considered the more literary and probing realist of the trio.
- Payson R. Stevens
This year, 2015 marks the 100th “yohrzeit” (memorial) of Isaac Lieb Peretz, best known as I. L. Peretz (May 18, 1852 – 3 April 1915). Peretz was a genius in Yiddish literature during its blossoming at the turn of the last century.
Dec 13, 2013 · The I.L. Peretz reader. by. Isaac Leib Peretz. Publication date. 1990. Topics. Peretz, Isaac Leib, 1851 or 2-1915 -- Translations into English. Publisher. Schocken Books.
It is customary to speak of three figures—Mendele Mokher Sforim, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz—as the founders of modern Yiddish literature, but for those readers who must encounter them mainly through the rough lens of English translation, they are by no means equally accessible or attractive.
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As part of our New Yiddish Library series, the Center and Yale University Press published The I. L. Peretz Reader, an anthology of Peretz's writing edited by the preeminent Yiddish scholar Ruth Wisse. The I. L. Peretz Reader is the best English volume of Peretz’s work, with an erudite introduction by Wisse.
