The Il Peretz Reader

Author : I. L. Peretz
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480440787
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The I. L. Peretz Reader written by I. L. Peretz and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short works from a master of Jewish literature offer “a brilliantly evocative tribute to a bygone era” (Publishers Weekly). Isaac Leybush Peretz is one of the most influential figures of modern Jewish culture. Born in Poland and dedicated to Yiddish culture, he recognized that Jews needed to adapt to their times while preserving their cultural heritage, and his captivating and beautiful writings explore the complexities inherent in the struggle between tradition and the desire for progress. This book, which presents a memoir, poem, travelogue, and twenty-six stories by Peretz, also provides a detailed essay about Peretz’s life by Ruth R. Wisse. This edition of the book includes, as well, Peretz’s great visionary drama A Night in the Old Marketplace, in a rhymed, performable translation by Hillel Halkin.

Author : I. L. Peretz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300092455
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The I.L. Peretz Reader written by I. L. Peretz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "brilliantly evocative tribute to a bygone era" ("Publishers Weekly") presents a memoir, poem, travelogue, and 26 stories by Peretz (1852-1915), one of the most influential figures of modern Jewish culture.

Author : I. L. Peretz
Publisher : White Goat Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The I.L. Peretz Reader written by I. L. Peretz and published by White Goat Press. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Leybush Peretz (1852-1915) is one of the most influential figures of modern Jewish culture. Born in Poland and dedicated to Yiddish culture, he recognized that Jews needed to adapt to their times while preserving their cultural heritage, and his captivating and beautiful writings explore the complexities inherent in the struggle between tradition and the desire for progress. This book, which presents a memoir, poem, travelogue, and twenty-six stories by Peretz, also provides a detailed essay about Peretz's life by Ruth R. Wisse. This edition of the book includes as well Peretz's great visionary drama A Night in the Old Marketplace, in a rhymed, performable translation by Hillel Halkin.

Author : Isaac Leib Peretz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300145618
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isaac Leib Peretz Reader written by Isaac Leib Peretz and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isaac Leib Peretz
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 9780805210019
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The I.L. Peretz Reader written by Isaac Leib Peretz and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1990 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a critic of religious extremism and a leading voice for Jewish secular humanism, I.L. Peretz was the favorite author of immigrant Jews in America in the early years of this century. This broad selection of his short stories, including the classic "If Not Higher, " brings his passion and vision powerfully to life.

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805676
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture written by Ruth R. Wisse and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz’s writings in relation to his ideology, which sought to create a strong Jewish identity separate from the trappings of religion.

Author : Ken Frieden
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815650884
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz written by Ken Frieden and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novellas by S. Y. Abramovitsh open this collection of the best short works by three influential nineteenth-century Jewish authors. Abra- movitsh’s alter ego—Mendele the Book Peddler—introduces himself and narrates both The Little Man and Fishke the Lame. His cast of characters includes Isaac Abraham as tailor’s apprentice, choirboy, and corrupt businessman; Mendele’s friend Wine ’n’ Candles Alter; and Fishke, who travels through the Ukraine with a caravan of beggars. Sholem Aleichem’s lively stories reintroduce us to Tevye, the gregarious dairyman, as he describes the pleasures of raising his independent-minded daughters. These are followed by short monologues in which Aleichem gives voice to unforgettable characters from Eastern Europe to the Lower East Side. Finally, I. L. Peretz’s neo-hasidic tales draw on hasidic traditions in the service of modern literature. These stories provide an unsentimental look back at Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Although nostalgia occasionally colors their prose, the writers were social critics who understood the shortcomings of shtetl life. For the general reader, these translations breathe new life into the extraordinary worlds of Yiddish literature. The introduction, glossary, and biographical essays contemporaneous to each author put those worlds into context, making the book indispensable to students and scholars of Yiddish culture.

Author : Isaac Leib Peretz
Publisher : Pangloss Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934710251
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Works of I.L. Peretz written by Isaac Leib Peretz and published by Pangloss Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isaac Leib Peretz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories and Pictures written by Isaac Leib Peretz and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alina Molisak
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527502678
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews from Different Perspectives written by Alina Molisak and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the literary works of Polish Jews one unified literature in three languages: Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish, or is the literal corpus of each of these languages a separated literary and cultural phenomenon? Twenty-seven scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel explore different aspects of the multilingual literature of Eastern European Jews, with a particular focus on the trilingual literature of Polish Jews until World War II. The work of the great Yiddish and Hebrew writer Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) represents the center of the book, though it does not concentrate solely on Peretz’s work, but, rather, discusses the oeuvre of other unique authors in the cultural space of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe generally, and in Poland particularly. The book looks at this issue from three aspects, namely the literal, cultural, and historical, and also examines the dialogue of Polish Jewish literature with other languages and cultures.