"Stories and Pictures" by Isaac Loeb Peretz is a set of tales that show Jewish life through stories about belief, suffering, and finding yourself, mainly focusing on Russian Jews struggles. A wise person, someone, explaining the need to understand the culture helps you enjoy the tales which go into Jewish life, often mixed with Jewish traditions and Kabbalah teachings. It starts with a story about a thoughtful Rebbe of Nemirov who helps the poor and isn't just about magical practices. The book presents the difficulties of being human, making hard moral choices, and how spirituality and daily life are connected. The stories show real people in ways that touch hearts and share culture.
Stories and Pictures
By Isaac Loeb Peretz
Kindness and identity intertwine in this world, where people face tough choices, and the sacred meets the everyday in tales of Russian Jewish life.
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2011-08-28
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About the AuthorIsaac 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."
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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