Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes - Irena Klepfisz

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Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes, Irena Klepfisz, 1990, United States/Poland, ESSAYS

"...Now, decades later, she questions how to comprehend what is meant when she hears academics and intellectuals speak of being "turned off by the Holocaust."...She notes how she has learned to stop admitting she has a Ph.D. in job interviews after prospective employers worried she will get bored; "What deliberate ignorance and callousness to people—high school drop-out and Ph.D....—would allow for the conclusion that anyone would find this work anything but boring?"..."

(J.L., p. 329)