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1852–1915 Poland
Isaac Leib Peretz (May 18 1852 – April 3 1915) was a Polish-born author and poet who is counted among the three great classical writers in the Yiddish language.
Also known as: I. L. Peretz, Peretz, I. L., Peretz, Isaac Leib
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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
It is a key to open a heaven after death and not a key with which to force open the portals of this life.
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.
In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.
Who tells the truth needs no fancy phrases.
Genuine melody sings itself without a voice. It sings inside, within the heart, in man's very entrails!
Human lips are now forbidden to utter His name, for being the only God, He needs no name.
Jews are likened to sand: tiny grains, dry and scattered, each separate from the other.
At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.
Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?
If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.
The voice is on the borderline between the physical and the spiritual.
A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.
Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.
According to the generation is the music thereof.
To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.
The bigger the merchant the smaller the Jew.
One God, one Law, one people, and one land.
It is not only individuals—peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.
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