Isaac Leib Peretz
Isaac Leib Peretz, also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz, was a Polish Jewish writer and playwright writing in Yiddish. Payson R. Stevens, Charles M.
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Trending topics shown first"In the hands of the Jew, the reddest of all flags has been placed forcibly, and he has been told: "Go, go on and on, with all the liberators, with all fighters for a better tomorrow, with all destroye…"
"May all unite to do Thy will with a perfect heart!"… Thus prays the Jew. Have you more beautiful prayers to offer?"
"Time is change, transformation, evolution. Time is eternal sprouting, blossoming, the eternal tomorrow."
"A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better."
"The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed t…"
"Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, al…"
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