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.
Reading Celia Dropkin's Poems in Yiddish
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Dan Dropkin, grandson of Yiddish poet Celia Dropkin, talks about the only times he would hear his grandmother's poems read in Yiddish - when his Uncle John read them to the family.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Dan Dropkin.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
