Isaac Leib Peretz

Isaac Leib Peretz, born in Zamość on 18 May 1852 into an Orthodox Jewish family, practised as a lawyer until he was deprived of the right to plead, then left his town to devote himself to writing. Employed by the Jewish community of Warsaw from 1890, he dominated the city's Jewish literary life, edited journals and anthologies, wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew, and became one of the founders of the Yiddishist movement. He died in Warsaw on 3 April 1915, and some hundred thousand people followed his coffin.

In the catalogue 1

• TaleHasidic TalesKhsidishIsaac Leib Peretz · 1900Literature