HistoryFigure1852–1915

Isaac Leib Peretz

יצחק לייב פרץ

Region: Pologne

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Polish Yiddish and Hebrew writer, one of the three classic authors of Yiddish literature. His Hasidic and neo-Romantic tales deeply marked Jewish culture.

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Sources & resources

S. Niger, Y.L. Peretz (1946)
N. Meisel, Y.L. Peretz, Zayn Lebn un Shafn (1951)
« Peretz, Isaac Leib », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
Ber Borokhov, Y.L. Peretz: a Zamlbukh tzu Zayn Ondenkn (1915)
S.L. Tsitron, Dray Literarishe Doyres (1920)
J. Klausner, Yo?erim u-Vonim (1929)
S. Meltzer (ed.), Y.L. Peretz ve-Ye?irato (1961)
A.R. Malachi, yivo Bleter, (1952)
Y.D. Berkovitsh, Ha-Rishonim ki-Venei Adam (1953)
Y.Y. Trunk, Poyln (1949)
R. Peretz-Laks, Arum Peretzn (1935)
Y. Friedlander, Bein ?avayah le-?avayah: Massot al Ye?irato ha-Ivrit shel Y.L. Peretz (1974)
D.C. Jacobson, Modern Midrash (1987)
R. Wisse, I.L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (1991)
Kh. Shmeruk, Peretzs Yiesh-Vizie (1971)
K. Frieden, Classic Yiddish Fiction (1995)