[3] During her time in France, she was involved in efforts to establish Yiddish literary culture in interwar Paris.
[4] Lempel's writing career in America began in 1943 with a short story published in Der Tog.
[6] In 1947 she serialized a novel about the Occupation of Paris in Morgn Frayhayt, called Tsvishn tsvey veltn (Between Two Worlds).
[9] While not widely reviewed, it was positively received, with the Pasadena Independent describing it as having "some of the bitter elements of a great novel".
[11] Binem Heller served as Lempel's literary editor and agent for her first volume of short stories, A rege fun emes, published in 1981.