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Creativity is a life-affirming activity. Lack of response to creativity and being condemned to write for the desk drawer is a stifling, destructive experience.

— Chava Rosenfarb A Yiddish Writer Reflects on Translation (2005)

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There are times in life when muteness is the only appropriate language.

Letters to Blume Lempel (1982)

Writing is a lonely profession, and after the Holocaust, Yiddish writers were doubly lonely.

"Oh, when will there ever be peace between the old-timers and the newcomers?" one of the listeners sighs.

The crowd was in good spirits, convivial and singing, and for a while the troubles of the world seemed far away.

Letters to Blume Lempel (1982)

The girl possesses a carefree lightheartedness that makes Barukh feel more acutely the weight of the despair that he carries within himself.

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