sentences:  Peretz, he began writing in 1904 and gained recognition for his 1906 masterpiece "A Shtetl" (A Town).This novella, still regarded as his major achievement, was a literary response to a story by Sholem Asch called "The Shtetl".Unlike Asch's sentimental view of Eastern European Jewish unity in the waning years of the Russian Empire, Weissenberg used a naturalistic form to explore the deep divides between Jews, usually along class lines.