Desires / by Celia Dropkin ; translated by Anita Norich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dropkin, Celia, 1888-1956

Contributor:

Norich, Anita, 1952- translator.

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Yiddish literature.

Physical Description:

273 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst, Massachusetts : White Goat Press, [2024]

Summary:

Desires, the only novel by Celia (Tsilye) Dropkin (1888-1956), was originally serialized between March 31 and June 6, 1934, in the Jewish Daily Forward, or Forverts. Dropkin, a poet known for sexual and erotic themes, was born in Babruysk, a city in what is now Belarus, and immigrated to New York in 1912, where she adopted Yiddish as her primary literary language. In the 1930s she turned to prose, publishing this novel and ten short stories that appeared in the journal Tsukunft (Future). In Desires, as in much of her work, Dropkin reflects on the internal and external conflicts of love, domesticity, and the erotic life. Through characters carefully drawn from her own immigrant milieu, Dropkin addresses the yearnings of both the body and mind, the tension between excitement and security, and the conflicting impulses that are part of the human condition.

ISBN:

9798989452415

9798989452422

9798989452439

OCLC:

1439121822

Publisher Number:

90100184981