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

— Chava Rosenfarb

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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.

A Yiddish Writer Reflects on Translation (2005)

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

Letters to Blume Lempel (1982)

"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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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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