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    Leib Peretz (Polish: Icchok Lejbusz Perec, Yiddish: יצחק־לייבוש פרץ) (May 18, 1852 – April 3, 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz was...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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!"...
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    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...
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    career. In 1899, he moved to Warsaw where he met I. L. Peretz and other young writers under Peretz's mentorship such as David Pinski, Abraham Reisen,...
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    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...
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    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...
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    leading founders of this movement were Mendele Moykher-Sforim (1836–1917), I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), and Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916). The Yiddishist movement...
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  • 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...
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    School was renamed the Jewish Peretz Schools (Yiddish: ײִדישע פרץ שולן, Yiddishe Peretz Shuln) after writer I. L. Peretz, and purchased its first building...
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    mission in a post-apocalyptic world to deliver the Bible for safe-keeping. I. L. Peretz wrote The Magician, which was illustrated by Marc Chagall in 1917, about...
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  • holds a reading of the play in a local salon run by the influential I. L. Peretz, receiving mixed reactions from the participants. Some are appalled by...
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  • herself became a figure of Jewish legend, such as the story "Der Zivug" by I.L. Peretz, in which Bas Tovim is given hospitality and leaves behind a pair of...
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    admirers (among his friends and acquaintances were fellow Yiddish authors I. L. Peretz, Jacob Dinezon, Mordecai Spector, and Noach Pryłucki). In 1909, in celebration...
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    active group of Yiddish authors, including his colleagues and friends I. L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, and Sholem Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher Sforim), considered...
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  • serves a similar function to the work of pre-World War I classic Yiddish writers like I. L. Peretz and S. Ansky: it documents Hasidic life by highlighting...
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  • rather dark, fictional themes. Shapiro returned to Warsaw in 1903, and I. L. Peretz helped him publish his first literary works: Di Fligl ("The Wings");...
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    to do," Hopkins told Flanagan at their first meeting in May 1935. "I don't know why I still hang on to the idea that unemployed actors get just as hungry...
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  • Hagiography in I. L. Peretz's Neo-Hasidic Stories (in Hebrew) Parodia ve-hagiographia: sippurim hasidiim-keveyakhol shel I. L. Peretz. Archived 2016-03-04...
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    off assimilation. He was also a co-founder and vice-chairman of the I. L. Peretz Writers' Association and a founder of the world association of Jewish...
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  • Mennonite University Menno Simons College Redekop School of Business I. L. Peretz Folk School (defunct) Manitoba Emergency Services College Mid-Ocean School...
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  • Jack London – The Sea-Wolf Arthur Morrison – The Green Eye of Goona I. L. Peretz – "The Magician" (דער קונצענמאכער, "Der Kuntsenmakher" – short story)...
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  • – Tjerita Si Tjonat Bradford C. Peck – The World a Department Store I. L. Peretz – "Oyb Nisht Nokh Hekher" (If Not Higher; short story) Henryk Sienkiewicz...
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  • illustrated version of The Magician (דער קונצענמאכער, Der Kuntsenmakher) by I. L. Peretz (died 1915) appears in Vilnius. Elizabeth von Arnim – Christine Mariano...
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    secular Jewish school named after the radical Polish-Yiddish writer IL. Peretz. During a conference on Jewish radicalism in Winnipeg held in 2001, Panitch...
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  • The Calgary Jewish Academy (formerly the Calgary Hebrew School, and I.L. Peretz School) is a historic Jewish independent school in Calgary, Alberta. The...
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    composed his Children's Songs for voice and piano, based on texts by I. L. Peretz; they were the first of his compositions to be published. Following Weinberg's...
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    Warsaw to pursue a career as a writer. Under the influence of his mentor I. L. Peretz he began writing in Yiddish as well as Hebrew. He played an important...
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