Wandering Soul : : ‹i›The Dybbuk‹/i›’s Creator, S. An-sky / / Gabriella Safran.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Safran, Gabriella,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport, known to the world as An-sky, was the author of The Dybbuk, the best known work of Yiddish/ Hebrew theater. During a tumultuous life, he left his mark on a dizzying array of political and cultural movements, Russian and Jewish, and seemingly crossing paths with just about every significant member of the radical intelligentsia of his time. Born in the Pale of Settlement in 1863, An-sky experimented with a variety of identities across virtually his entire adult life, from Jewish Enlightener to Russian Populist, writer, ethnographer, Zionist, and finally, Jewish communal relief worker during the cataclysms of the First World War. An-sky is a singularly interesting historical figure as he, like few others, encapsulates a crucial era of Jewish history - an era that marked the birth of modern Jewish politics and a modern, secular Jewish culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Names, Dates, and Transliteration -- Map of An- sky’s Travels -- Prologue -- 1. A Bad Influence -- 2. To the Salt Mines -- 3. A Revolutionary Has No Name -- 4. A Propagandist’s Education -- 5. We Swear to Fight! -- 6. The Hero of Deeds and the Hero of Words -- 7. No Common Language -- 8. The Dybbuk and the Golem -- 9. A Passion for Bloodshed -- 10. All Flesh Is Grass -- Epilogue -- Archives and Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index