Publication date 1992 Topics An-Ski, S., 1863-1920 - Diaries. The book also contains little-known works of autobiographical and fantastical prose fiction, as well as an excerpt from The Destruction of Galacia, Ansky's four-volume chronicle of the Eastern Front in the First World War. The Dybbuk and other writings Bookreader Item Preview. Anskys mystical Yiddish drama 'The Dybbuk' is a play almost perfectly suited to Tony Kushners tastes and talents. The Dybbuk had its world premiere in that language, performed by the Vilna Troupe at Warsaw in 1920. Reviews 11:00pm PT A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds S. It was originally written in Russian and later translated into Yiddish by Ansky himself. Set in the vanished, mystically religious world of 19th-century Eastern European Hasidism, S. Roskies reveals that Ansky's return to Mother Russia was accompanied by a profound renegotiation with his hasidic heritage, the Yiddish language, and the Jewish historical imagination. The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds is a play by S. In his introduction to this volume, David G. Anksy had just returned from an epoch-making ethnographic expedition through the Yiddish heartland of Eastern Europe, and what he found in the towns and townlets of the Ukraine was a religious civilization that mediated the living and the dead, the strong and the weak, the natural and the supernatural. Ansky (1863-1920) brings together the saga of his own youthful rebellion against religious authority, his abiding faith in the power of the simple folk, his utopian struggle for equality, and his newfound commitment to the Jewish people. In The Dybbuk, a drama of mystical passion and demonic possession, S. Roskies (editor), Golda Werman (translator)
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