• Thumbnail for I. L. Peretz
    Leib Peretz (Polish: Icchok Lejbusz Perec, Yiddish: יצחק־לייבוש פרץ) (May 18, 1852 – April 3, 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz was...
    18 KB (2,202 words) - 12:43, 18 August 2024
  • North End. Seven years later, in 1914, the Aberdeen School (later the I. L. Peretz School) was established as a secular Yiddish-language school. Within...
    9 KB (975 words) - 06:09, 2 August 2024
  • Jesse Peretz (born May 19, 1968) is an American film and television director, TV producer and former musician. He first rose to prominence as a bass guitarist...
    10 KB (924 words) - 19:59, 28 May 2024
  • religious Jews. He is a descendant of the Polish-Yiddish writer I. L. Peretz. Peretz graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at age 15. He received...
    40 KB (4,216 words) - 09:16, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jewish Autonomous Oblast
    were named after prominent Yiddish authors such as Sholom Aleichem and I. L. Peretz. The Jewish population of JAO reached a pre-war peak of 20,000 in 1937...
    51 KB (5,205 words) - 22:50, 15 August 2024
  • relationship, which was the first lesbian kiss on an American stage. I. L. Peretz famously said of the play after reading it: "Burn it, Asch, burn it!"...
    16 KB (1,666 words) - 03:24, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shiksa
    Peddler", in which a shiksa plans to eat the Jewish man she is dating, and I. L. Peretz "Monish", which sees a Jewish man fall into a hell-like place for loving...
    11 KB (1,296 words) - 01:31, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yiddish literature
    centered around I. L. Peretz took Yiddish to another level of modern experimentation; they included David Pinski, S. Ansky, Sholem Asch and I.M. Weissenberg...
    37 KB (4,948 words) - 12:53, 18 July 2024
  • ISBN 978-1-350-19000-9. Mahalel, Adi (2023-04-01). The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism. State University of New York Press...
    4 KB (382 words) - 17:10, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yiddishist movement
    leading founders of this movement were Mendele Moykher-Sforim (1836–1917), I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), and Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916). The Yiddishist movement...
    24 KB (2,901 words) - 08:37, 27 August 2024