Lempel (1907?1999) was one of a small number of writers in the United States who wrote in Yiddish into the 1990s. Though many of her stories opened a window on the Old World and the Holocaust, she did
"[These] stories give English readers an unprecedented opportunity to delve into a substantial body of prose by Blume Lempel, an important voice in post?World War II Yiddish letters." ?Jeffrey Shandle
