Community Dozens Gather In D.C To Celebrate New Yiddish Translation of Blume Lempel’s Work On Sunday afternoon, January 8, more than 80 people attended a reading and celebration in Washington, D.C., honoring the publication of a new book of translations of 24 stories by the remarkable Yiddish writer Blume Lempel (1907-1999). The event was held at Politics and Prose, a well-known Washington bookstore where President Obama and other Washington… By Jim Feldman and Natalie Wexler Jan 19, 2017 | 3 min read
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