"Oh, when will there ever be peace between the old-timers and the newcomers?" one of the listeners sighs. - Chava Rosenfarb

Writing is a lonely profession, and after the Holocaust, Yiddish writers were doubly lonely.

I have many times tried to escape the subject of the Holocaust in my writing, but I have never succeeded. No matter which road I take, it invariably leads me back to the destination that I most want to avoid. My personal life and my literary life have forever been divided into two eras, the era before and the era after the Holocaust, and only from this perspective am I capable of viewing both my own life and human history.

I was entranced by the kind of magic that went into the act of transposing words from one language into another.