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Irena Klepfisz (born April 17, 1941) is a Jewish Lesbian author, academic and activist. ==Early life== Klepfisz was born in the Warsaw Ghetto on April 17, 1941 and was 2 years old during the "varshever geto oyfshtand", (Yiddish for 'the Warsaw ghetto uprising').〔Klepfisz author bio: Chametzky, Jules. ''Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology'', 2001, W. W. Norton & Company ISBN 0-393-04809-8, p1081〕 Her father, Michał Klepfisz, a member of "der algemeynernyidisher arbeter bund", (the Jewish Labour Bund), was killed on the second day of the uprising.〔Peterson, Nancy J., 2001 University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 0-8122-3594-0, pp113–114〕〔Klepfisz, Irena. ''Secular Jewish Identity: Yidishkayt in America'', ''The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology'', ''Sinister Wisdom'' Issue 29/30, p31〕 Klepfisz escaped with her mother to the Polish countryside where they survived the Second World War by hiding and concealing their Jewish identities, aided by Polish peasants.〔Irena Klepfisz Biography, Chametzky, Jules. ''Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology'' 2001, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0-393-04809-8, p1081〕 After the war, the remaining family moved briefly to Łódź before moving to Sweden in 1946. Irena and her mother moved to the United States in 1949.〔Klepfisz author bio, ''The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology'', ''Sinister Wisdom'' Issue 29/30, p324〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Irena Klepfisz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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