Wandering soul : the Dybbuk's creator, S. An-Sky / Gabriella Safran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Safran, Gabriella, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

An-Ski, S., 1863-1920.

An-Ski, S.

Authors, Russian--Biography.

Authors, Russian.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

353 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.

Summary:

In The Dybbuk, the mystical play at the center of modern Yiddish and Hebrew theater, the hero experiments with Kabbalah, dies, then rises from the dead to possess the woman he loves. The play's author was just as restless and rebellious. Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport, known by his pen name, S. An-sky, was a Russian and Yiddish journalist, a revolutionary propagandist, and a pioneering ethnographer who lived with Russian miners and Hasidic Jews. Wandering Soul is the first biography of An-sky. Using all his writing in Russian and Yiddish, his drafts, and his revealing letters, Gabriella Safran explores his life, his work, and through him the rich world of the Russian Jews.

Contents:

Prologue

A bad influence

To the salt mines

A revolutionary has no name

A propagandist's education

We swear to fight!

The hero of deeds and the hero of words

No common language

The Dybbuk and the Golem

A passion for bloodshed

All flesh is grass

Archives and abbreviations

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674055704

0674055705

OCLC:

555658491