“It is not only individuals—peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.”

— Isaac Leib Peretz

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

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Yiddish language author and playwright 1852–1915

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