Irena Klepfisz on Yiddish literature

“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.”

“I can hardly overemphasize the significance of the present collection. Found Treasures presents for the first time a body of Yiddish writing by women who speak to us directly...What is evident is that women's prose contributions to modern Yiddish literature are now being recovered only because of feminist efforts. This work is motivated by scholarly interests, but also by Jewish women's needs to reconstruct and claim an authentic past in which women are included. Without it, most of us feel unrooted and incomplete. Found Treasures is a major step towards such reconstruction.”