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I. L. Peretz

1852 - 1915

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Isaac Leib Peretz (May 18, 1852 – April 3, 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz (Polish: Icchok Lejbusz Perec; Yiddish: יצחק־לייבוש פרץ), was a Polish Jewish writer and playwright writing in Yiddish. 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 against the many humiliations to which they were being subjected." Peretz rejected cultural universalism, seeing the world as composed of different nations, each with its own character. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. I. L. Peretz is the 1,844th most popular writer (down from 1,748th in 2019), the 401st most popular biography from Poland (down from 385th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, I. L. Peretz ranks 1,844 out of 7,302. Before him are Emilia Pardo Bazán, Jacques Cazotte, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Alonso de Ercilla, and Joseph Joubert. After him are Simon Dach, Giovannino Guareschi, Marcel Schwob, Namık Kemal, Hans F. K. Günther, and Erle Stanley Gardner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, I. L. Peretz ranks 42. Before him are Edmund Leighton, Joseph Freinademetz, Théophile Delcassé, John Harvey Kellogg, Ion Luca Caragiale, and John French, 1st Earl of Ypres. After him are Max von Gallwitz, Leopoldo Alas, Charles W. Fairbanks, Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Henri Gervex, and Friedrich Loeffler. Among people deceased in 1915, I. L. Peretz ranks 37. Before him are Julius von Payer, François Faber, Oswald Külpe, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Anna Leonowens, and Theodor Leschetizky. After him are Ankō Itosu, James Murray, Sandford Fleming, Hans Gross, Friedrich Loeffler, and Carlos Finlay.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, I. L. Peretz ranks 401 out of 1,694. Before him are Gustav Flatow (1875), Carl Tausig (1841), Helmuth von Pannwitz (1898), Theodor Leschetizky (1830), Hans Karl von Diebitsch (1785), and Alfred Korzybski (1879). After him are Richeza of Poland, Queen of Castile (1140), Barbara Jagiellon (1478), Max von Gallwitz (1852), Walerian Borowczyk (1923), Pylyp Orlyk (1672), and Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria (1457).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, I. L. Peretz ranks 36. Before him are Martin Opitz (1597), Andreas Gryphius (1616), Avraham Stern (1907), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), and Izabela Czartoryska (1746). After him are Uri Orlev (1931), Maria Konopnicka (1842), Piotr Skarga (1536), Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), and Julian Tuwim (1894).

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