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All the works of Y.L. Peretz: Songs and Ballad, in Yiddish, 1925, Vilna - All the works of Y.L. Peretz: Songs and Ballad, in Yiddish, 1925, Vilna Vilna, Klyachkin Printing House, 1922., 216 pp., with woodcut pubisher’s logo of Klyachkin Printing House Hard calico cover, gold stamped lettering to cover and spine; marmoreal endpapers, red upper edge, size: 21 x 14 cm. Condition: some wear and rubbing to cover; yellow / light brown paper; here and there foxing stains; stains to edges; repair strips near spine to endpapers. Several worm holes to last pages. Weight: 270 gr. Isaac Leib Peretz (May 18, 1852 – April 3, 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz (Polish: Icchok Lejbusz Perec; Yiddish: יצחק־לייבוש פרץ), 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.[1] 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.” The Klyachkin family was a Jewish publishing and bookselling family operating in Vilnius (then Vilna, part of the Russian Empire) in the second half of the 19th century. Associated with Jewish book publishing (Hebrew, Yiddish, religious texts) Primary focus: prayer books (siddurim) religious commentaries educational literature (cheder, talmud torah) sometimes secular Jewish literature In the 19th century, Vilnius was one of the largest centers of Jewish printing in Eastern Europe (along with Zhitomir, Warsaw, and Odessa). ”Vilna” (Klyachkin Printing House) ”Vilna” (Klyachkin Publication) ”Vilna” (Vilna Publication)