The Jewish poet, novelist, and playwright Isaac Loeb Peretz (1851-1915) was the leader of Yiddishism, a cultural movement dedicated to making Yiddish the national language of Jewish people throughout ...
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In the following excerpt, Niger gives an overview of Peretz's contributions to Yiddish literature.
May 18, 1952, marked the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Yitzchak Leybush Peretz&...
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In the following essay, Adler discusses Peretz's blending of traditional Jewish tales with his own modern world view.
Y. L. Peretz invigorated Yiddish and Hebrew writings with cadences from ...
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In the following excerpt, Frieden explores first-person narratives in Peretz's tales,
Peretz contributed immeasurably to Yiddish fiction with his first book, a collection of three stories en...
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In the following essay, Fiedler discusses Peretz's work in relation to Jewish culture and the literature of the absurd.
It is fifteen years now since I first read Peretz; and before that for...
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In the following essay, Liptzin praises Peretz's uplifting vision of the Jewish character.
Yitzkhok Leibush Peretz is the supreme literary artist of Eastern European Jewry. From his poems, s...
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In the following essay, Knox offers an appreciation of Pereti's stories.
Mendele, Peretz, and Sholem Aleichem are regarded as the three "masters" of modern Yiddish literature, ...
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In the following excerpt, Rabinovich discusses Pereti 's use of modernist literary techniques.
After the collapse of the 1905 Russian revolution and the growing reactionism of the government...
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In the following essay, Miller offers a close reading of the story 'Bontsye Shvayg.'
Yitskhok Leybush Perets' "Bontsye Shvayg" has enjoyed an unusual reception: i...
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In the following essay, Wiesel offers appreciative commentary on Peretz's Selected Stories.
Do you know I. L. Peretz? You don't? Well that is regrettable but understandable. He did, a...
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In the following excerpt, Gittleman discusses Peretz's depiction of Jewish family life.
Peretz is inevitably linked to Mendele Mocher Sforim and to Sholom Aleichem to form the great troika o...
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In the following essay, Baranczak offers an appreciative review of The I. L. Peretz Reader.
For any American reader, [The I. L. Peretz Reader] will be a handy and skillfully edited selection of the...
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Isaac Loeb Peretz
Critical Essay by S. Niger
