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Record Nr.

UNISA996248338103316

Autore

Safran Gabriella <1967->

Titolo

Wandering soul : the Dybbuk's creator, S. An-Sky / / Gabriella Safran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-674-05858-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p., [26] p. of plates ) : ill., facsims., map, ports

Disciplina

839/.18309

B

Soggetti

Authors, Russian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue -- A bad influence -- To the salt mines -- A revolutionary has no name -- A propagandist's education -- We swear to fight! -- The hero of deeds and the hero of words -- No common language -- The Dybbuk and the Golem -- A passion for bloodshed -- All flesh is grass -- Archives and abbreviations -- Notes.

Sommario/riassunto

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.