Irena Klepfisz - Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, ho

Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.

- Irena Klepfisz

source: Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

topic: Memories, Disappointment, Betrayal, Foreign Lands