# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/itzhak-peretz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:08:27.225Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/itzhak-peretz"
name: "Itzhak Peretz"
slug: "itzhak-peretz"
description: "Isaac Leib Peretz, 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... Peretz aroused in his readers the will for self-emancipation, the will for resistance against the many humiliations to which they were being subjected.\""
tagline: "Yiddish language author and playwright (1852–1915)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/I_L_Peretz_postcard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1852-05-18"
deathDate: "1915-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.03
  momentum:             0.5182341650671785
  historical:           22.487516
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Ицхок Лейбуш Перец"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jicchok Lejb Perec"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._L._Peretz"
    title: "I. L. Peretz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizchok_Leib_Perez"
    title: "Jizchok Leib Perez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._L._Peretz"
    title: "I. L. Peretz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ic%C4%A5ok_Lejbu%C5%9D_Perec"
    title: "Icĥok Lejbuŝ Perec"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Isaac Leib Peretz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Isaac Leib Peretz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._L._Peretz"
    title: "I. L. Peretz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Leib_Peretz"
    title: "Isaac Leib Peretz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "י\"ל פרץ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Isaac Leib Peretz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Іцхок Лейбуш Перец"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://he.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D7%99%22%D7%9C_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A5"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q425644"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump