"I want my Yiddish involvement to be rooted in my life, in the present, want it to be infused with my contemporary pol…"

"I feel a sense of urgency when it comes to Trump and his administration. I’m here today because I’m beginning to see …"

"no theory about American Jews has been able to express quite as well the nature and power of Jewish identity as the m…"

"From the age of twenty, my ego has been invested in poetry. For me, the prospect of expression through poetry transfo…"

"At thirteen I tried silence. At sixteen I tried anonymity. I have since learned these are not the only options."

"Repeatedly, I find that I am preoccupied not with countering anti-Semitism, but with trying to prove that anti-Semiti…"

"I want the issue of anti-Semitism to be incorporated into our overall struggle because there are lesbian/feminists am…"

"When the Jews finally staged the uprising in April 1943, the Polish underground refused them almost every form of ass…"

"I think it is time for all of us in this movement, Jews and non-Jews alike, to examine our silence on this subject, t…"

"Klepfisz's bilingual poems do not-and this is significant-drop Yiddish phrases in a cosy evocation of an idealized pa…"