The Dybbuk and Other Writings by S. Ansky
, by S. Ansky; Edited and with an introduction by David G. Roskies; With translated by Golda WermanNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780300092509 | 0300092504
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 8/11/2002
In The Dybbuk, a drama of mystical passion and demonic possession, S. 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. Ansky 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.