The Worlds of S. An-sky : A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century / ed. by Gabriella Safran, Steven J. Zipperstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

An-sky, S., Contributor.

Bowlt, John E., Contributor.

Deutsch, Nathaniel, Contributor.

Frankel, Jonathan, Contributor.

Goldberg, Sylvie Anne, Contributor.

Horowitz, Brian, Contributor.

Ivanov, Vladislav, Contributor.

Krutikov, Mikhail, Contributor.

Kugelmass, Jack, Contributor.

Kuznitz, Cecile E., Contributor.

Lukin, Benyamin, Contributor.

Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan, Contributor.

Roskies, David G., Contributor.

Safran, Gabriella, Contributor.

Safran, Gabriella, Editor.

Steinlauf, Michael C., Contributor.

Wolitz, Seth L., Contributor.

Zemtsovsky, Izaly, Contributor.

Zipperstein, Steven J., Contributor.

Zipperstein, Steven J., Editor.

Series:

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (576 p.) : 5 figures, 25 illustrations, 1 map

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In 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 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 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. Includes a CD of An-sky’s music,, in Russian and Yiddish

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures and Map

Preface and Acknowledgments

Timeline: Semyon Akimovich An-sky/Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport

Key Archival Sources

Key Printed Sources

Introduction: An -sky and the Guises of Modern Jewish Culture

1. An-sky, Sholem Aleichem, and the Master Narrative of Russian Jewry

2. Paradigmatic Times: An-sky's Two Worlds

3. An-sky in 1892: The Jew and the Petersburg Myth

4. "We Are Too Late": An-sky and the Paradigm of No Return

5. Spiritual and Physical Strength in An-sky's Literary Imagination

6. The Russian Jew as a Modern Hero: Identity Construction in An-sky's Writings

7. "Youth in Revolt": An-sky's In shtrom and the Instant Fictionalization of 1905

8. Inscribing An-sky's Dybbuk in Russian and Jewish Letters

9. The Musical Strands of An-sky's Texts and Contexts

10. "Fardibekt!": An-sky's Polish Legacy

11. An-sky, Evgeny Vakhtangov, and The Dybbuk

12. An-sky and the Ethnography of Jewish Women

I3. "An Academy Where Folklore Will be Studied": An-sky and the Jewish Museum

14. Ethnic Loyalty and International Modernism: The An-sky Expeditions and the Russian Avant-Garde

15. An-sky's Legacy: the Vilna Historic-Ethnographic Society and the Shaping of Modern Jewish Culture

16. The Father of Jewish Ethnography?

Appendix S. An-sky, Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk): Censored Variant

Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk): A Jewish

Notes

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2024-7

OCLC:

1294426381