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Isaac Leib Peretz: Citations en anglais
“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.
Sewing the Wedding Gown, 1906. Nine One-Act Plays from Yiddish. Translated by Bessie F. White, Boston, John W. Luce & Co., 1932, p. 127.
"I Am a Rainworm", 1900, translated by Jacob Robbins. J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 83.
The Day, 1906. Alle Verk, xii. 319. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 18.
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.
“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.
Advice to the Estranged, S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 348.
“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 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.
