With the poem “Monish” Peretz made his debut as a Yiddish writer in 1888. This story of a pious Jewish boy, autobiographically inspired, as Peretz tells us in his memoirs, comments on the crisis of the Jewish artist who succumbs to the powerful attraction of Christian culture. More @Wikipedia
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