Isaac Leib Peretz
Isaac Leib Peretz (Polish: Icchok Lejbusz Perec, Yiddish: יצחק־לייבוש פרץ) (May 18, 1852 – April 3, 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz 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. In Liptzin's account, "[e]very people is seen by him to be a chosen people, chosen by its peculiar history, geography and ethnic composition"; he conceived of Jewish literature as "grounded in Jewish traditions and Jewish history", and as "the expression of Jewish ideals". 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. |
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | B-16972 | 10-in. | 1/6/1916 | Shteinerne palatzen | R. Rosovskaia Medvedieff | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Victor | B-17984 | 10-in. | 7/15/1916 | Misplach fun a dul hoise | Al Harris | Dramatic recitation | author | |
Victor | BS-036586 | 10-in. | 5/2/1939 | Dos gebet | Sidor Belarsky | Male vocal solo, with instrumental trio | author |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Peretz, Isaac Leib," accessed October 13, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/101907.
Peretz, Isaac Leib. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved October 13, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/101907.
"Peretz, Isaac Leib." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 13 October 2024.
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Wikipedia: יצחק לייבוש פרץ
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LCNAR: Peretz, Isaac Leib, 1851 or 1852-1915 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50011063
Wikidata: יצחק לייבוש פרץ - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q425644
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/236889434
MusicBrainz: יצחק לייבוש פרץ - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0b4f6342-bf23-4cc3-aab6-64415d459ee1
ISNI: 0000 0003 7039 6728 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000370396728
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