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I. L. Peretz

1852 - 1915

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Isaac Leib Peretz (Polish: Icchok Lejbusz Perec, Yiddish: יצחק־לייבוש פרץ) (May 18, 1852 – April 3, 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz was a Polish Jewish writer and playwright writing in Yiddish. Payson R. Stevens, Charles M. Levine, and Sol Steinmetz count him with Mendele Mokher Seforim and Sholem Aleichem as one of the three great classical Yiddish writers. Sol Liptzin wrote: "Yitzkhok Leibush Peretz was the great awakener of Yiddish-speaking Jewry and Sholom Aleichem its comforter.... Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of I. L. Peretz has received more than 114,411 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). I. L. Peretz is the 1,794th most popular writer (up from 1,906th in 2019), the 379th most popular biography from Poland (up from 405th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 110k

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  • 56.14

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, I. L. Peretz ranks 1,794 out of 5,755. Before him are Hugh Lofting, John of Ephesus, William Caxton, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Jorge Manrique, and Margarete Buber-Neumann. After him are Donald E. Westlake, Konstantin Paustovsky, David Burliuk, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lilya Brik, and Alexandre Benois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, I. L. Peretz ranks 39. Before him are Ion Luca Caragiale, Pietro Gasparri, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, and John Harvey Kellogg. After him are Bérenger Saunière, Joseph Freinademetz, Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, Friedrich Loeffler, Charles W. Fairbanks, and Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov. Among people deceased in 1915, I. L. Peretz ranks 32. Before him are Remy de Gourmont, Karl Goldmark, François Faber, Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, Theodor Leschetizky, and Nadežda Petrović. After him are Friedrich Loeffler, Ankō Itosu, Oswald Külpe, Vazha-Pshavela, Gabriel von Max, and Walter Crane.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, I. L. Peretz ranks 379 out of 1,454. Before him are Oskar R. Lange (1904), Anna Catherine Constance Vasa (1619), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), Alexander Imich (1903), David Seymour (1911), and Christoph Eschenbach (1940). After him are Hyacinth of Poland (1185), Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718), Alexandre Tansman (1897), Horst Mahler (1936), Adolf Engler (1844), and Josef Hofmann (1876).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, I. L. Peretz ranks 37. Before him are Fritz Gerlich (1883), Martin Opitz (1597), Andreas Gryphius (1616), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), and Alexander Imich (1903). After him are George Adamski (1891), Avraham Stern (1907), Maria Konopnicka (1842), Stefania Wilczyńska (1886), Piotr Skarga (1536), and Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920).

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