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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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Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude, the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
He who provides life provides also a living.
Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down.
As victors, you may become the bureaucracy: doling out to each his bit as in a poorhouse, assigning to each his task as in a prison.
We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.
We become more united in exile than in Palestine.
You are the weakest and the least, and the last to be redeemed.... You will be freed, when man will rise above the earthly, when human worms will turn into human eagles.
There are melodies that must have words... and melodies that sing themselves without words.
I am a rainworm, buried deep
The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones.
The song that from the heart would spring
In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!
"May all unite to do Thy will with a perfect heart!"… Thus prays the Jew. Have you more beautiful prayers to offer?
Youth is fair, a graceful stag,
A heap of bricks is not yet a house.
The worst dog gets the best bone.
Rather a stone, but to be alone!
Time is change, transformation, evolution. Time is eternal sprouting, blossoming, the eternal tomorrow.
"For the commandment is a lamp" [Prov. 6.23]. And the spark which kindles the commandment is devotion.
With the same bricks one may erect... a palace or a prison.... The same letters are used in Holy Writ and heretical works.
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