LEADER 04036nam 2200601 a 450 001 996248338103316 005 20240416153301.0 010 $a0-674-05858-5 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674058583 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081310 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH21789316 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000474300 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12180038 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000474300 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10454919 035 $a(PQKB)10846262 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300902 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300902 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456069 035 $a(OCoLC)709591744 035 $a(DE-B1597)585442 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674058583 035 $a(dli)HEB31725 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000552 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081310 100 $a20100430d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWandering soul $ethe Dybbuk's creator, S. An-Sky /$fGabriella Safran 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (353 p., [26] p. of plates ) $cill., facsims., map, ports 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-05570-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue -- 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. 330 8 $aIn 'The Dybbuk', the mystical play at the center of modern Yiddish and Hebrew theater, the hero experiments with Kabbalah, dies, then rises from the dead to possess the woman he loves. The play's author was just as restless and rebellious. Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport, known by his pen name, S. An-sky.$bThe man who would become S. An-sky -ethnographer, war correspondent, author of the best-known Yiddish play, The Dybbuk -was born Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport in 1863, in Russia's Pale of Settlement. His journey from the streets of Vitebsk to the center of modern Yiddish and Hebrew theater, by way of St. Petersburg, Paris, and war-torn Austria-Hungry, was both extraordinary and in some ways typical: Marc Chagall, another child of Vitebsk, would make a similar transit a generation later. Like Chagall, An-sky was loyal to multiple, conflicting Jewish, Russian, and European identities. And like Chagall, An-sky made his physical and cultural transience manifest as he drew on Jewish folk culture to create art that defied nationality. Leaving Vitebsk at seventeen, An-sky forged a number of apparently contradictory paths. A witness to peasant poverty, pogroms, and war, he tried to rescue the vestiges of disappearing communities even while fighting for reform. A loner addicted to reinventing himself-at times a Russian laborer, a radical orator, a Jewish activist, an ethnographer of Hasidism, a wartime relief worker-An-sky saw himself as a savior of the people's culture and its artifacts. What united the disparate strands of his life was his eagerness to speak to and for as many people as possible, regardless of their language or national origin. In this first full-length biography in English, Gabriella Safran, using Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, and French sources, recreates this neglected protean figure who, with his passions, struggles, and art, anticipated the complicated identities of the European Jews who would follow him. 517 3 $aDybbuk's creator, S. An-Sky 606 $aAuthors, Russian$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, Russian 676 $a839/.18309 676 $aB 700 $aSafran$b Gabriella$f1967-$0860358 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248338103316 996 $aWandering soul$91922773 997 $aUNISA