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Quotes from Interview with Yiddish Book Center — Irena Klepfisz

born 1941 Poland

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I'm a person who's interested in history in general. I think we should have accurate history, and I think we should look at people that have been erased, histories that have been erased.

Interview with Yiddish Book Center (2017)

The translation of Yiddish literature into English by the -- beginning with, like, Irving Howe, and that totally erased women, so it was even worse in English than it actually was in Yiddish.

Interview with Yiddish Book Center (2017)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Irena Klepfisz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.