Drei Matones, 1904–15. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 187.
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A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, vi. 33.
Vegn Geshichte, 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 35.
Advice to the Estranged, S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 348.
Isaac Leib Peretz Quotes about people
The Day, 1906. Alle Verk, xii. 319. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 18.
Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 11; S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 310.
Der Dichter, 1910. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 325.
Idishe Bibliotek, i. Pref., 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 7.
Isaac Leib Peretz Quotes about life
Vegn vos Firn op fun Yidishkeit, 1911. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 372.
Vegn vos Firn op fun Yidishkeit, 1911. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 372.
Context: They are all so-called Christian nations, but... this superimposed religion... does not penetrate into the core of their souls. It has no relation to their daily experience... It is a key to open a heaven after death and not a key with which to force open the portals of this life.
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“Ghetto is impotence. Cultural cross-fertilization is the only possibility for human development.”
Vegn vos Firn op fun Yidishkeit, 1911. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 378.
Context: We should get out of the ghetto, but we should get out as Jews, with our own spiritual treasures. We should interchange, give and take, but not beg. Ghetto is impotence. Cultural cross-fertilization is the only possibility for human development.
“You are lighting a fire beneath the open sky, while your own family in your own house is freezing.”
Bildung, 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 20ff. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, pp. 334–8.
Context: [About loyalty to Judaism] Don't assume, Jewish intellectuals, that you are doing your duty by working... for so-called Humanity.... You are lighting a fire beneath the open sky, while your own family in your own house is freezing.
Mekubolim, 1906. Alle Verk, vi. 53.
Context: There are melodies that must have words... and melodies that sing themselves without words. The latter are of a higher grade. But these, too, depend on a voice and lips,... hence are not yet altogether pure, not yet genuine spirit. Genuine melody sings itself without a voice. It sings inside, within the heart, in man's very entrails!
Isaac Leib Peretz Quotes
“The Hebrew language… is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones.”
Bildung, 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 14.
Context: 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 their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!
Advice to the Estranged. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 348.
Context: A Jew waits for Messiah to come and redeem the world from fear and pain, from the cataclysmic conflicts between rich and poor. All shall enjoy the earth. This means, in popular imagination, that bread and clothes shall grow, ready-made, on trees. Do you have more winged ideals?
“There are melodies that must have words… and melodies that sing themselves without words.”
Mekubolim, 1906. Alle Verk, vi. 53.
Context: There are melodies that must have words... and melodies that sing themselves without words. The latter are of a higher grade. But these, too, depend on a voice and lips,... hence are not yet altogether pure, not yet genuine spirit. Genuine melody sings itself without a voice. It sings inside, within the heart, in man's very entrails!
Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 279.
Context: I fear you. As victors, you may become the bureaucracy: doling out to each his bit as in a poorhouse, assigning to each his task as in a prison. And you will exterminate the creator of new worlds,—the free human will, and stop up the purest well of human happiness—the power of the one to face thousands, to stand up to peoples and generations.
"I Am a Rainworm", 1900, translated by J. Robbins, (J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 83).
“The voice is on the borderline between the physical and the spiritual.”
Mekubolim, 1906. Alle Verk, vi. 53.
“We are like fish
In this vast sea.
And Satan fishes
For you and me.”
"Monish" (translated in J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 56.), 1888.
Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 24.
"Manginot HaZman". HaAsif, 1886, p. 729f.
“Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude, the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.”
Purim, 1896. Alle Verk, xii. 137. quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 123.
“Jews are likened to sand: tiny grains, dry and scattered, each separate from the other.”
Reb Nohemkes Myses, 1904, p. 200.
“A heap of bricks is not yet a house.”
A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, 35; S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 239.
“According to the generation is the music thereof.”
A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, vi. 73.
Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. Alle Verk, xiii. 9.
“We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.”
Quoted by M. Samuel, Prince of the Ghetto, 179.
“Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down.”
All for a Pinch of Snuff, c. 1910. Quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 64.
“Who tells the truth needs no fancy phrases.”
Yohanan Melameds Maaselach, 1904. Alle Verk, vi. 181.
Sewing the Wedding Gown, 1906. Nine One-Act Plays from Yiddish. Translated by Bessie F. White, Boston, John W. Luce & Co., 1932, p. 127.
“In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.”
Shreib a Feleton, 1895. Alle Verk, xii. 77.
"I Am a Rainworm", 1900, translated by Jacob Robbins. J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 83.
Mesiras Nefesh, c. 1910. Alle Verk, vii. 142. M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 22.
“If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.”
Sholom Bayis, 1889. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 153.
“Children… constitute man's eternity.”
Der Dichter, 1910. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 321.
“At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.”
Drei Matones, c. 1910. Alle Verk, vii. 18.
“Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.”
Taanis Gedanken, 1896. Alle Verk, xii. 77.
“Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.”
Fir Dores Fir Tzavoes, 1901. Alle Verk, iv. 237.
Mesiras Nefesh, quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 22.
“Human lips are now forbidden to utter His name, for being the only God, He needs no name.”
Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 23.
Sewing the Wedding Gown, 1906. Nine One-Act Plays from Yiddish. Translated by Bessie F. White, Boston, John W. Luce & Co., 1932, p. 126.
Quoted in Jewish Affairs (Johannesburg), June 1952, p. 28. See Alle Verk, xii. 318.
Verk, edited by Kletzkin, xi. 277f.
“The worst dog gets the best bone.”
Mesiras Nefesh, c. 1910. Alle Verk, vii. 155.
“The song that from the heart would spring
Is dead for want of echoing.”
In Alien Lands, translated by Leah W. Leonard.
“A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.”
A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, vi. 33.
Quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 162.
