Klepfisz, Irena, 1941-
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Name (Hebrew)
קלפפיש, אירנה, 1941-
Name (Latin)
Klepfisz, Irena, 1941-
Other forms of name
nnea Klepfisz, Irene
Klepfisz, Irena
Date of birth
1941-04-17
Place of birth
Warsaw (Poland)
Place of residence/headquarters
New York (N.Y.)
United States
(1949.
Associate group
New Jewish Agenda (Organization)
Barnard College
Occupation
Authors
College teachers
Translators
Associated Language
engyid
Gender
female
Sources of Information
- Her Birth and Later Years, 2022:ECIP t.p. (Irena Klepfisz) data view (Irena Klepfisz is a poet, essayist, Yiddishist, and political activist) galley (also co-editor of Jewish women's call for peace [her name was misspelled as Irene in the cataloging record]
- Jewish women's call for peace, c1990:CIP t.p. (Irene Klepfisz)
- Her Keeper of accounts, c1982:CIP t.p. (Irena Klepfisz) CIP data sheet (b. 4/17/41; survivor Nazi Holocaust)
- Contemp. lesbian writers of the US, 1993:p. 287 (Irena Klepfisz, born Warsaw, Poland, 1941; moved to US in 1949; currently executive director of New Jewish Agenda)
- born in the Warsaw Ghetto; daughter of Michał Klepfisz, a member of the Jewish Labour Bund, and Rose Klepfisz (née Shoshana Perczykow; 1914-2016); her father, was killed on the second day of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; today Klepfisz is known as a Yiddishist, known for her translations of Yiddish poets Kadya Molodowsky and Fradl Shtok; currently teaches at Barnard in New York city ( (Wikipedia, July 19, 2016:) )