I. L. Peretz

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Yiddish writer modernist author person playwright writer

I. L. Peretz was a seminal Yiddish writer and playwright whose modernist stories and folk-inspired works helped shape the canon of Yiddish literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Aliases (2)
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instanceOf Yiddish writer →
modernist author →
person →
playwright →
writer →
activePeriod early 20th century →
late 19th century →
birthDate 1852-05-18 →
birthPlace Congress Poland →
Russian Empire →
Zamość →
burialPlace Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery →
Warsaw →
citizenship Russian Empire →
contemporaryOf Mendele Mocher Sforim →
Sholem Aleichem →
deathDate 1915-04-03 →
deathPlace Congress Poland →
Russian Empire →
Warsaw →
ethnicGroup Ashkenazi Jews →
familyName Peretz →
fullName Isaac Leib Peretz →
genre drama →
folktale →
short story →
givenName Isaac →
Yitskhok →
influenced Der Nister →
Dovid Bergelson →
Sholem Asch →
Yiddish literature →
movement Haskalah →
Jewish Enlightenment →
Yiddish modernism →
nativeLanguage Yiddish →
notableFor folk-inspired literary works →
helping shape the canon of Yiddish literature →
modernist Yiddish short stories →
notableWork Bontshe Shvayg →
If Not Higher →
Stories and Pictures →
The Seven Good Years →
occupation editor →
journalist →
lawyer →
playwright →
writer →
religion Judaism →
writingLanguage Hebrew →
Polish →
Yiddish →
Referenced by (16)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Yitskhok Leybush Peretz →
Yitskhok Leybush Peretz ("Isaac Leib Peretz") →
Yitskhok Leybush Peretz ("Yitskhok Leyb Peretz") →
alternateName
If Not Higher →
Stories and Pictures →
The Seven Good Years →
author
Bontshe Shvayg →
Bontshe Shvayg ("Isaac Leib Peretz") →
The Seven Good Years →
creator
Yiddish →
Yiddish literature →
hasNotableAuthor
Sholem Rabinovich →
contemporaryOf
I. L. Peretz ("Isaac Leib Peretz") →
fullName
Stories and Pictures ("Isaac Leib Peretz") →
hasAuthor
Peretz →
hasNotableBearer
Mendele Mocher Sforim →
influenced
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