Shloime Ansky pseud. of Solomon Seinwil Rapoport, 1863-1920, Russian-Yiddish author. He extensively researched regional Jewish folklore and incorporated folk elements into his realistic stories of peasant life and Hasidism. His most famous work is Tsvishn Tsvey Veltn, oder der Dibuk (1916, tr. The Dybbuk, 1926), a play about demonic possession first staged by Vakhtangov in the Moscow Jewish theater (the Habimah ) and by the Vilna Troupe. It was adapted into a major expressionist film by M. Waszynski in Poland in 1938. Ansky's Destruction of Galicia (1925-27, tr. 1992) is an important account of the onslaught on the region's Jewish communities in World War I, witnessed during an aid-bringing mission.
Bibliography: See D. Roskies, The Dybbuk and other Writings (1992).
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YIDDISH "ROMEO AND JULIET'; JUDAIC SCHOLAR BRINGS REALISM TO PLAY "THE DYBBUK'.(Local)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 4/6/2002; 663 words;
... cast and crew presenting S. Ansky's The Dybbuk. Thanks to Frieden ... through April 27, was written by Shloime Zanvel Rappoport, who was born ... later took the pseudonym S. Ansky. From 1912 to 1914, Ansky and other researchers studied ... the mid-1980s. He worked on Ansky's collection of Yiddish ...
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Joseph Green: 'I Knew Exactly What I Wanted'
Forward; 1/10/2003; Edelman, Rob; 747 words;
... what I wanted. I was accepted as a performer with the Vilna Troupe [the group, organized in 1915, whose production of Shloime Ansky's "The Dybbuk" in 1919 revolutionized world theater] ... . In 1923, when the company was touring England, it was engaged ...
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THE PLAY'S THE THING AT SYRACUSE STAGE; CHARACTERS THAT "LEAP OFF THE PAGE" ARE COMMON THREAD OF THE UPCOMING SEASON.(CNY)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 8/20/2001; 889 words;
... Timothy Douglas, who directed this season's Blues for an Alabama Sky will return to direct Lesson. `The Dybbuk' By Shloime Ansky, translated from Yiddish by Joachim Neugroschel, directed by Barbara Damashek; April 3 to 28. This play is a hard sell ...
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