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1907–1999 United States
Blume Lempel (1907–October 20, 1999) was a Yiddish language writer. She was born in Galicia, lived in Paris between 1929 and 1939, and immigrated to New York with her husband and two children in 1939.
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The unwritten letters are the most interesting; they come spontaneously, straight from the heart, and swim away with all the unwritten stories, the uninvented poems.
Letters to Chava Rosenfarb (1982)
How wonderful to have a friend who reads, who understands, who offers a critical word that hits the nail on the head.
Letters to Chava Rosenfarb (1982)
“Life, my dear, is a garden full of all kinds of plants,” Mrs. Zagretti said. “People, too, are plants that must be cultivated if they are to reach their highest potential.”
The friendship has never crossed over the fence...The garden was the intermediary that brought them together. As the garden blossomed, so did the friendship — but never did it cross their thresholds.
Don’t worry that at the moment you’re not writing. Live a little! Nothing will be lost—it will come back to you with interest when you’re back at your desk
Letters to Chava Rosenfarb (1982)
"I understand people, maybe not with my brains but with something my ancestors planted in me." (Mrs. Zagretti)
At times I feel very pessimistic—for whom are we writing? Then I think of you—you, who give so much and receive so little, who go on with your work—and in Yiddish! Who am I to complain? bl
Letters to Chava Rosenfarb (1982)
dancing around the tree as if it were a pagan god.
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