Please come to a discussion and reading by Irena Klepfisz
11 am on Friday, April 21

UConn-Stamford’s Center for Women’s Studies (Rm. 311)

Irena Klepfisz is a poet, essayist, Yiddish translator, and political activist. She is a founder of the contemporary lesbian-feminist and Jewish feminist movements. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1941, Irena Klepfisz narrowly escaped Nazi persecution with her mother who was able to disguise them both as non-Jews.

Her father was a leader in the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis. She arrived in the United States when she was eight years old, speaking only Polish and Yiddish. Today, she is an internationally acclaimed Yiddish scholar, with an expertise in Jewish women writers. She has been teaching Jewish women’s courses at Barnard College for ten years.

Co-sponsored by Center for Women’s Studies and Faculty Program Committee
Supported by a grant from the Daniel Berdon Memorial Fund