Icchok Lejbusz Perec

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Icchok Lejbusz Perec was a seminal Yiddish writer and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, regarded as one of the founding figures of modern Yiddish literature.

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Perec 1

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instanceOf Yiddish-language playwright
Yiddish-language writer
modern Yiddish literature pioneer
person
playwright
writer
alternateName I. L. Peretz
Isaac Leib Peretz
linked to: I. L. Peretz

Yitskhok Leybush Peretz
linked to: I. L. Peretz
birthDate 1852-05-18
birthPlace Congress Poland
Russian Empire
Zamość
burialPlace Warsaw
citizenship Russian Empire
contemporaryOf Mendele Moykher Sforim
Sholem Aleichem
countryOfOrigin Poland
deathDate 1915-04-03
deathPlace Congress Poland
Russian Empire
Warsaw
ethnicGroup Jewish
genre drama
essay
poetry
short story
influenced Der Nister
Sholem Asch
modern Yiddish writers
languageOfWorkOrName Hebrew
Polish
Yiddish
movement Haskalah
Jewish literary modernism
modern Yiddish literature
nameInYiddish יצחק לייבוש פרץ
notableWork Bontshe Shvayg
Hasidic Tales
If Not Higher
Stories and Pictures
The Night in the Old Marketplace
occupation essayist
journalist
lawyer
playwright
poet
writer
positionHeld community lawyer in Warsaw
religion Judaism
residence Warsaw

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Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw containsGraveOf Icchok Lejbusz Perec
Georges Perec familyName Perec
linked to: Icchok Lejbusz Perec