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Isaac Leib Peretz , also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz, best known as I. L. Peretz, was a Yiddish language author and playwright from Poland. Payson R. Stevens, Charles M. Levine, and Sol Steinmetz count him with Mendele Mokher Seforim and Sholem Aleichem as one of the three great classical Yiddish writers. Sol Liptzin wrote: "Yitzkhok Leibush Peretz was the great awakener of Yiddish-speaking Jewry, and Sholom Aleichem its comforter... Peretz aroused in his readers the will for self-emancipation, the will for resistance..."

Peretz rejected cultural universalism, seeing the world as composed of different nations, each with its own character. Liptzin comments that "Every people is seen by him as a chosen people..."; he saw his role as a Jewish writer to express "Jewish ideals...grounded in Jewish tradition and Jewish history."

Unlike many other Maskilim, he greatly respected the Hasidic Jews for their mode of being in the world; at the same time, he understood that there was a need to make allowances for human frailty. His short stories such as "If Not Higher", "The Treasure", and "Beside the Dying" emphasize the importance of sincere piety rather than empty religiosity.

✵ 18. mayo 1852 – 21. marzo 1915
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“[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.”

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Idishe Bibliotek, i. Pref., 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 7.

“Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down.”

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All for a Pinch of Snuff, c. 1910. Quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 64.

“Who tells the truth needs no fancy phrases.”

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Yohanan Melameds Maaselach, 1904. Alle Verk, vi. 181.

“Youth is fair, a graceful stag,
Leaping, playing in a park.
Age is gray, a toothless hag,
Stumbling in the dark.”

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Sewing the Wedding Gown, 1906. Nine One-Act Plays from Yiddish. Translated by Bessie F. White, Boston, John W. Luce & Co., 1932, p. 127.

“A stranger's rose is but a thorn.”

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In Alien Lands, translated by Leah W. Leonard.

“I want to soar the boundless blue
Where winds and tempests have their birth,
And let the clouds conceal for me
Not heaven, but the earth.”

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"I Am a Rainworm", 1900, translated by Jacob Robbins. J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 83.

“In the hands of the Jew, the reddest of all flags has been placed forcibly, and he has been told: "Go, go on and on, with all the liberators, with all fighters for a better tomorrow, with all destroyers of Sodoms. But never may you rest with them…. Pay everywhere the bloodiest costs of liberation, but be unnamed in all emancipation proclamations, or be rarely and scarcely mentioned."… The people cursed and blessed to be the last of the redeemed, to be eternally bleeding, the highest soaring expression of the divine in life.”

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The Day, 1906. Alle Verk, xii. 319. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 18.

“Man has been likened to an earthen pot…. You have but to tap the pot with your finger. If it rings back full and true, all is well; there is your perfect pot. And if not—man, alas, has been likened to a broken potsherd.”

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Mesiras Nefesh, c. 1910. Alle Verk, vii. 142. M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 22.

“If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.”

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Sholom Bayis, 1889. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 153.

“Children… constitute man's eternity.”

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Der Dichter, 1910. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 321.

“At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.”

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Drei Matones, c. 1910. Alle Verk, vii. 18.

“"May all unite to do Thy will with a perfect heart!"… Thus prays the Jew. Have you more beautiful prayers to offer?”

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Advice to the Estranged, S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 348.

“The soul is imprisoned in the body, and the Lord… built two windows in the wall of the prison… Unfortunately, the windows have curtains—eyelids; and a man whose soul is impure, feeling himself scrutinized, lets down the curtains and conceals the soul.”

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Mesiras Nefesh, quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 22.

“Human lips are now forbidden to utter His name, for being the only God, He needs no name.”

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Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 23.

“Rather a stone, but to be alone!”

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Oich a Feleton, 1894. Alle Verk, xii. 64.

“You are the weakest and the least, and the last to be redeemed…. You will be freed, when man will rise above the earthly, when human worms will turn into human eagles.”

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The Day, 1906. Alle Verk, xii. 319.

“Little houses in a row,
Down a quiet lane;
Neither doors nor windows know,
Peace and darkness reign.
Though you cannot pay the rent,
You will dwell there with the best.
Where the weary, broken, spent,
Find eternal rest!”

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Sewing the Wedding Gown, 1906. Nine One-Act Plays from Yiddish. Translated by Bessie F. White, Boston, John W. Luce & Co., 1932, p. 126.

“[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole…. Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.”

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Quoted in Jewish Affairs (Johannesburg), June 1952, p. 28. See Alle Verk, xii. 318.

“[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.”

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Verk, edited by Kletzkin, xi. 277f.

“The worst dog gets the best bone.”

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Mesiras Nefesh, c. 1910. Alle Verk, vii. 155.

“The song that from the heart would spring
Is dead for want of echoing.”

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In Alien Lands, translated by Leah W. Leonard.

“A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.”

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A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, vi. 33.

“Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.”

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Quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 162.

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