"Everything you write is not only well written, but also interesting and easy to read. These qualities don’t always go together, but in your work they do."
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Blume Lempel
Blume Lempel (1907–October 20, 1999) was a Yiddish language writer. She was born in Galicia, lived in Paris between 1929 and 1939, and immigrated to New York with her husband and two children in 1939.
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