Photo credit: John Dropkin, Courtesy of the Jewish Women's Archive
Celia Dropkin
1887-1956
Current City, State, Country
New York, New York, USA
Birth City, State, Country
Bobruysk, Belarus
Biography
Celia Dropkin was an influential Yiddish poet. Born in Eastern Europe, she received both a traditional Jewish and a secular education, and emigrated to New York in 1912, at the age of 25. Dropkin’s only poetry collection, In Heysn Vint (In a Hot Wind), established her as one of modern Yiddish’s major poets, and she was known in particular for her explicitly erotic lyrics, which influenced a generation of Yiddish writers.
Published Works
The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin, translated from Yiddish by Faith Jones, Jennifer Kronovet, and Samuel Solomon. Foreword by Edward Hirsch (Tebot Bach, 2014)
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Languages of Publication(s) and Poets Translated
Yiddish
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Daniel Kraft