The worlds of S. An-sky : a Russian Jewish intellectual at the turn of the century / edited by Gabriella Safran and Steven J. Zipperstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Safran, Gabriella, 1967-

Zipperstein, Steven J., 1950-

Cravens, Craig Stephen, 1965-

Stanford University

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

An-Ski, S., 1863-1920--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

An-Ski, S.

An-Ski, S., 1863-1920.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 542 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, music ; 23 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

Includes translation of An-ski's Dibeḳ into English.

Summary:

Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport, known as An-sky (1863-1920), the author of the best known play in the Hebrew and Yiddish languages, "The Dybbuk," was a figure of immense versatility and also ambiguity in Russian and Jewish intellectual, literary, and political spheres. He was a leading Russian populist; he was the author of the poem adopted as the anthem of the Jewish Socialist Labor Bund; he is credited with being the founder of the field of Jewish ethnography; and he wrote one of the most influential works of Jewish catastrophe literature in modern times, his masterpiece "Hurbn Galitsye," on the travails of East European Jews in the First World War.

This volume is the fullest and most complete examination of An-sky ever produced. It draws together leading historians, ethnographers, literary scholars, and others in a far-ranging, multidisciplinary exploration. It also contains numerous photographs culled from archives in the former Soviet Union, a superb English translation of an early Russian draft-among the very first-of the The Dybbuk, and a timeline that covers all of An-sky's peripatetic life. Finally, it includes a compact disk combining material drawn from An-sky's own 1912-14 field recordings of Jewish songs, together with contemporary renditions, recorded at Stanford, of the Russian and Yiddish music that An-sky wrote, collected, and heard.

Contents:

Introduction: An-sky and the guises of modern Jewish culture / Steven J. Zipperstein

An-sky, Sholem Aleichem, and the master narrative of Russian Jewry / David G. Roskies

Paradigmatic times: An-sky's two worlds / Sylvie Anne Goldberg

An-sky in 1892: the Jew and the Petersburg myth / Gabriella Safran

"We are too late": An-sky and the paradigm of no return / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Spiritual and physical strength in An-sky's literary imagination / Brian Horowitz

The Russian Jew as a modern hero: identity construction in An-sky's writings / Mikhail Krutikov

"Youth in revolt": An-sky's In shtrom and the instant fictionalization of 1905 / Jonathan Frankel

Inscribing An-sky's Dybbuk in Russian and Jewish letters / Seth L. Wolitz

The musical strands of An-sky's texts and contexts / Izaly Zemtsovsky

"Fardibekt!": An-sky's Polish legacy / Michael C. Steinlauf

An-sky, Evgeny Vakhtangov, and the Dybbuk / Vladislav Ivanov (translated by Anne Eakin Moss)

An-sky and the ethnography of Jewish women / Nathaniel Deutsch

"An academy where folklore will be studied": An-sky and the Jewish Museum / Benjamin Lukin

Ethnic loyalty and international modernism: the An-sky expeditions and the Russian avant-garde / John E. Bowlt

An-sky's legacy: the Vilna Jewish Historic-Ethnographic Society, and the shaping of modern Jewish culture / Cecile E. Kuznitz

The father of Jewish ethnography? / Jack Kugelmass

Appendix: The dybbuk, S. An-sky, Between two worlds (The dybbuk): censored variant / introduction by Vladislav Ivanov

Translators' note / Craig Cravens with Gabriella Safran

Between two worlds (The dybbuk): a Jewish dramatic legend in four acts with prologue and epilogue / by S. An-sky ; edited by Vladislav Ivanov; translated by Craig Cravens.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference held at Stanford University, March 17-19, 2001.

Accompanying sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) cataloged separately under title: Dos oyfḳomen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-507) and index.

Translated from the Russian.

Contains:

An-Ski, S., 1863-1920. Dibeḳ. English

ISBN:

0804745277

080475344X

OCLC:

62290517

Publisher Number:

9780804753449