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.

Dan Dropkin's Oral History

Dan Dropkin, grandson of Yiddish poet Celia Dropkin, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on March 22, 2018 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

This interview was conducted in English.

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Video highlights from this oral history

"She Never Entered Those Discussions": Celia Dropkin's Apoliticism

1 min 42 sec

"There's a Mystical Attachment": Celia Dropkin as a Grandmother

1 min 50 sec

"I Was Always Aware That She Was Full of Love for Me"

2 min 3 sec

"I Am Astonished and Ashamed": Rita Dove Encounters Celia Dropkin's Poetry

2 min 23 sec

Reading Celia Dropkin's Poems in Yiddish

1 min 24 sec

"I Write Poems": Dan Dropkin Recites a Gentler Poem

1 min 6 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

In heysn vint by Celia Dropkin

Handwritten Translations of Celia Dropkin Poems Do and A Cradle Song

Handwritten Translation of Celia Dropkin Poem At the Window, from December 19 1888 in White Russia

Handwritten Translations of Celia Dropkin Poem's A Cradle Song and My Ship

Handwritten Translations of Celia Dropkin Poems At the Window, I will Run Away, and A Circus Dancer

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