Isaac Leib Peretz

Isaac Leib Peretz was born in 1852 in Zamość, into a traditional Jewish family; educated at the heder and the yeshiva, he taught himself several languages and European literature. Admitted to the bar, he practised for ten years in his town before the Russian authorities withdrew his licence, on a suspicion of socialism. Settled in Warsaw in 1891, he remained there until his death an employee of the Jewish community. He wrote in Hebrew, then mainly in Yiddish, received the city's writers at his home and helped many beginners. He died in Warsaw in 1915; a hundred thousand people followed his funeral.

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• TaleThe Magicianדער קונצנמאכערIsaac Leib Peretz · 1917Literature