WRITER

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 122,314 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). I. L. Peretz is the 1,749th most popular writer (up from 1,790th in 2019), the 385th most popular biography from Poland (down from 379th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

I. L. Peretz Reader, The
1996
The Stories of I. L. Peretz
2001
Stories and pictures
Translations into English, Jews, Fiction
1906
Bontshe the Silent
The Book of Fire

Among WRITERS

Among writers, I. L. Peretz ranks 1,749 out of 7,302. Before him are Banine, Gaius Julius Solinus, David Burliuk, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Edmond Hamilton, and Minamoto no Sanetomo. After him are Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Dorothy Parker, Li Yu, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Alexandre Benois, and Princess Michael of Kent.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, I. L. Peretz ranks 38. Before him are John Louis Emil Dreyer, Hans Vaihinger, Edmund Leighton, Ion Luca Caragiale, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, and Max von Gallwitz. After him are John Harvey Kellogg, Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, Théophile Delcassé, John Henry Poynting, Joseph Freinademetz, and Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg. Among people deceased in 1915, I. L. Peretz ranks 32. Before him are Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, Edith Cavell, Adèle Hugo, Karl Goldmark, Anna Leonowens, and Julius von Payer. After him are Oswald Külpe, Ankō Itosu, Hans Gross, Theodor Leschetizky, Vazha-Pshavela, and Mubarak Al-Sabah.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, I. L. Peretz ranks 385 out of 1,694. Before him are Hugo Haase (1863), Włodzimierz Lubański (1947), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702), Max von Gallwitz (1852), and Fritz Freitag (1894). After him are Pylyp Orlyk (1672), Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1755), Konrad von Jungingen (1355), Barbara Jagiellon (1478), Stanisław Dziwisz (1939), and Fritz von Below (1853).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, I. L. Peretz ranks 37. Before him are Jerzy Kosiński (1933), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Avraham Stern (1907), Andreas Gryphius (1616), Martin Opitz (1597), and Stanisław Wyspiański (1869). After him are Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868), Uri Orlev (1931), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Julian Tuwim (1894), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), and Maria Konopnicka (1842).

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