“I had no language in which I was completely rooted” Irena Klepfisz
Come and join us in inspiring poetry evening, in listening to and discussing work of Irena Klepfisz, a New York-based poet who uses both English and Yiddish languages in search for her own voice. Irena Klepfisz is a poet, Yiddish translator, and teacher of Jewish Women Studies. She was born in 1941 in the Warsaw Ghetto. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising claimed the life of her father, Michal Klepfisz, a resistance fighter and a Bund activist who was posthumously awarded the Virtuti Militari medal. After the Warsaw Uprising, she and her mother, Rosa Perczykow-Klepfisz, hid in a village until the liberation. They then moved to Lodz and, in 1946, emigrated to Sweden, and in 1949, to the United States. |