Isaac Leib Peretz citations

Bildung, 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 20ff. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, pp. 334–8.
Contexte: [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.
Contexte: 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!

Vegn vos Firn op fun Yidishkeit, 1911. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 372.
Contexte: 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.

Bildung, 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 14.
Contexte: 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.
Contexte: 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?

Mekubolim, 1906. Alle Verk, vi. 53.
Contexte: 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.
Contexte: 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.

Drei Matones, 1904–15. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 187.

A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, vi. 33.

Vegn Geshichte, 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 35.

Preface to Idishé Bibliotek, i. 1890.

"I Am a Rainworm", 1900, translated by J. Robbins, (J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 83).

Der Dichter, 1910. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 325.

Mekubolim, 1906. Alle Verk, vi. 53.

"Monish" (translated in J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 56.), 1888.

Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 24.

Torah. Alle Verk, vi. 74.

"Manginot HaZman". HaAsif, 1886, p. 729f.

Purim, 1896. Alle Verk, xii. 137. quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 123.

Quoted by M. Samuel, Prince of the Ghetto, 146.

Reb Nohemkes Myses, 1904, p. 200.

A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, 35; S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 239.

A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, vi. 73.

Vegn vos Firn op fun Yidishkeit, 1911. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 372.

Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. Alle Verk, xiii. 9.

Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 11; S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 310.

Quoted by M. Samuel, Prince of the Ghetto, 179.

Torah, 1906. Alle Verk, iv. 75.

Yohanan Melamed's Maaselech. Alle Verk, vi. 181.