Peretz Hirshbein

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Peretz Hirshbein

American writer

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Yiddish literature
Yiddish theater
Peretz Hirshbein tried his hand at short avant-garde plays such as Eynzame veltn (first published in Hebrew, 1905; in Yiddish, 1906; “Solitary Worlds”) as well as more traditional dramas. His Tkies kaf (1908; “The Vow”) anticipated S. Ansky’s Der dibek, discussed below. Hirshbein’s first naturalistic…
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Peretz Hirshbein tried his hand at short avant-garde plays such as Eynzame veltn (first published in Hebrew, 1905; in Yiddish, 1906; “Solitary Worlds”) as well as more traditional dramas. His Tkies kaf (1908; “The Vow”) anticipated S. Ansky’s Der dibek, discussed below. Hirshbein’s first naturalistic…
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