Isaac Peretz

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Isaac Leib Peretz, also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz, was a Polish Jewish writer and playwright writing in Yiddish. Payson R. Stevens, Charles M. Levine, and Sol Steinmetz count him with Mendele Mokher Seforim and Sholem Aleichem as one of the three great classical Yiddish writers. Sol Liptzin wrote: "Yitzkhok Leibush Peretz was the great awakener of Yiddish-speaking Jewry and Sholom Aleichem its comforter... Peretz aroused in his readers the will for self-emancipation, the will for resistance against the many humiliations to which they were being subjected."

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Isaac (Biblical figure). Etymology: From Ysaac, from Isaac, from Ἰσαάκ, from tr=Yiṣḥāq. Explained in Genesis as referring to his mother Sarah’s laughing when she was told she would have a son at her old age. The verb is masculine, however, perhaps due to its use as a boy’s name.

The name Isaac is of English origin, meaning "Isaac (Biblical figure). Etymology: From Ysaac, from Isaac, from Ἰσαάκ, from tr=Yiṣḥāq. Explained in Genesis as referring to his mother Sarah’s laughing when she was told she would have a son at her old age. The verb is masculine, however, perhaps due to its use as a boy’s name.". It is traditionally a male name.

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