The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

Family Remembrances of Celia Dropkin

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Ruth Dropkin, daughter-in-law of Celia Dropkin, describes Celia Dropkin's lively and dramatic personality and shares some memories of her that she heard from Celia's daughters.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ruth (Warshavsky Zeitlin) Dropkin.

This excerpt is in English.

Ruth (Warshavsky Zeitlin) Dropkin was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918. Ruth (Warshavsky Zeitlin) died in 2020.