Adrienne Rich Introduction to A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems by Irena Klepfisz (1990)
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The great flowering of Yiddish literature took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, along with the rise of Jewish secularism and the Jewish labor and socialist movements.

— Adrienne Rich on Yiddish literature

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Adrienne Rich

About Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich (16 May 1929 - 27 March 2012) was an American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer.