Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. From November 11 to 21, The National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene welcomes ...

The eighth volume of the Soviet Literary Encyclopedia, just issued, devotes more than four columns to I. L. Peretz, who is described as one of the classic writers of Yiddish literature. There is also ...

Inspired by the Yiddish short stories of I. L. Peretz (1852-1915), the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene is mingling modern arts and the mythic past in two one-act allegorical pieces, one starring ...

Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Leib (I.L.) Peretz died almost a century ago, but the works of the two giants of Yiddish literature live on in film and on stage. Last month saw the release of the ...

Are you looking for a unique and meaningful way to observe the Jewish New Year? Come to the I.L. Peretz Secular Jewish Community Rosh Hashanah ceremony on Tuesday, Saturday, September 19 and our Yom ...

Although my name is Rogovoy, I grew up in an extended family named Peretz — my mother’s maiden name. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins — I identified more as a Peretz than as a Rogovoy. On every ...

Leading Yiddish and other Jewish writers in Poland, representatives of the organize Jewish community, and several hundred Warsaw Jews participated in ceremonies commemorating the death of the famous ...

Did the Enlightenment come to the Jewish world like a thunderclap? Like a mist drifting in? Like an alarm clock penetrating a deep sleep? It doesn’t matter. It came, and with it a writer who could ...

FRANKLIN -- The I.L. Peretz Community Jewish School, the secular-humanistic choice in central New Jersey, will host an open house on Sunday, Sept. 13, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Rutgers Prep, 1345 Easton ...

The great writer IL Peretz died 100 years ago. His name was Yitzhak Leibush Peretz, born in Zamoscz in 1852, died in Warsaw in 1915. Zebulon Simantov’s library of old Hebrew books. (Photo: Paula ...