I. L. Peretz Folk School

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The I.L. Peretz Folk School of Winnipeg was founded in the city's Jewish district in the years immediately following the explosion of Jewish population in Winnipeg's North End caused by anti-semitic pogroms in Russia that peaked in the 1880s.

The school was named for one of the greatest Yiddish authors and playwrights, Isaac Leib Peretz (May 18, 1852–1915), also known as Yitskhok Leybush Peretz, best known as I.L. Peretz (or more popularly among Yiddish speakers as Yud Lamed Peretz, using his Hebrew-language initials).

Throughout its history, it held co-educational classes in both Yiddish and English up through Grade VII. Declining enrolment and rising costs during the 1980s led to its closing and absorption by the Talmud Torah, a more religiously oriented, Hebrew-language day school on Matheson Avenue, which created a Yiddish-language track to accommodate those interested in continuing education in Yiddish. The Talmud Torah name, in turn, disappeared when all parochial Jewish education in Winnipeg was moved to the new Asper Jewish Community Campus in Tuxedo during the 1990s.