We are more than a people.... We are of a pure blood. - Itzhak Peretz

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We are more than a people.... We are of a pure blood.

Itzhak Peretz

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About Itzhak Peretz

Isaac Leib Peretz (May 18 1852 – April 3 1915) was a Polish-born author and poet who is counted among the three great classical writers in the Yiddish language.

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Alternative Names: Isaac Leib Peretz • Isaac Loeb Peretz • I. L. Peretz

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Additional quotes by Itzhak Peretz

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 11; S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 310.