“With the same bricks one may erect… a palace or a prison…. The same letters are used in Holy Writ and heretical works.”

—  Isaac Leib Peretz

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

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Yiddish language author and playwright 1852–1915

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