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Sylvia Rothchild
In 1893, in the Polish town of Zamosh, eleven-year-old Isaac Leib Peretz had the reputation of being the smartest and the wildest boy in town. He learned to read when he was three years old and knew more than his teachers when he was ten. His exscapades, however, unnerved his parents, teachers, and friends. However the wild young genius grew up to be a great writer, teacher, lawyer, and community leader, an inspiration to his own him and to our own.
Though each adventure in this book describes a particular stage in Peretz's life, they are all examples of the same spirit. The boy who feels concern for an old man or a hungry child grows into the community worker who devotes his life to helping and teaching people. The courage and impulsiveness that send a young boy into a fire to save a Torah from the flames, or into a river to rescue a drowning boy arethe same as those which drive the older Peretz to speak out against the repressive Russian government and fight for the rights of ordinary people, even when his words endanger his own life and freedom. In his short stories and autobiography, Peretz left a collection of keys to his own life and time.
-From hardcover
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