Publication

2010 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

88,250 words, Guess

Page Count

353 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780674055704
  • Open LibraryOL25568291M

Classifications

  • DDC839/.18309
  • DDCB
  • LCCPJ5129.R3 Z84 2010
and 1 more
  • LCCPJ5129.R3Z84 2010

Description

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.

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