Yiddish writer Celia Dropkin (1887 – 1956) both shocked and delighted
New York literary society of the 1920s and 1930s with her poetic depictions of
the passions, yearnings, exaltations and celebration of the body.
Rebellion. Outrage. Love. Longing. Lust. Celia defiantly shattered the
conventions of gender, sexuality and moral code.
The legacy of one of the greatest Yiddish poets has been buried by time
and repression obscuring one central fact. Celia’s work expands not only what
it means to be a sexual being and Jewish but to be utterly, shamelessly human
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