Leib Peretz (Polish: Icchok Lejbusz Perec, Yiddish: יצחק־לייבוש פרץ) (May 18, 1852 – April 3, 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz was...

North End. Seven years later, in 1914, the Aberdeen School (later the I. L. Peretz School) was established as a secular Yiddish-language school. Within...

Jesse Peretz (born May 19, 1968) is an American film and television director, TV producer and former musician. He first rose to prominence as a bass guitarist...

religious Jews. He is a descendant of the Polish-Yiddish writer I. L. Peretz. Peretz graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at age 15. He received...

were named after prominent Yiddish authors such as Sholom Aleichem and I. L. Peretz. The Jewish population of JAO reached a pre-war peak of 20,000 in 1937...

Peddler", in which a shiksa plans to eat the Jewish man she is dating, and I. L. Peretz "Monish", which sees a Jewish man fall into a hell-like place for loving...

holds a reading of the play in a local salon run by the influential I. L. Peretz, receiving mixed reactions from the participants. Some are appalled by...

centered around I. L. Peretz took Yiddish to another level of modern experimentation; they included David Pinski, S. Ansky, Sholem Asch and I.M. Weissenberg...

mission in a post-apocalyptic world to deliver the Bible for safe-keeping. I. L. Peretz wrote The Magician, which was illustrated by Marc Chagall in 1917, about...

career. In 1899, he moved to Warsaw where he met I. L. Peretz and other young writers under Peretz's mentorship such as David Pinski, Abraham Reisen,...