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Title

Der Dibeḳ : tsṿishn tsṿey ṿelṭn : tsṿeyshprakhiḳe oyflage / farṭayṭshṭ fon Fernando Penialosa.

Author

An-Ski, S., 1863-1920

Publication

Rancho Palos Verdes, California : Tsiterboym Books, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

Peñalosa, Fernando

Description

ix, 192 p. : port.; 24 cm.

Summary

THE DYBBUK (BETWEEN TWO WORLDS) YIDDISH-ENGLISH EDITION x, 192 pp. Yiddish and English on facing pages. The Dybbuk, by S. An-sky (1863-1920) is the crown jewel of the Jewish theatre, the most renowned, most beloved, most translated, and most performed of all Jewish plays. It was first performed in Yiddish by the Vilna Troupe in Warsaw in 1920, and by the Habima Theatre in Moscow in 1922. It has subsequently been performed thousands of times all over the world in a score of languages. It is still being performed well into the 21st Century. As an agnostic Socialist, An-sky enigmatically wrote this play which favorably depicts a late 19th Century Hasidic community. A young maiden in love with one youth being forced to marry another is the kernel of the play around which the rest is developed: the dybbuk himself. A dybbuk is usually defined as a malevolent spirit that inhabits the body of a living person. An-sky's dybbuk is unique in that the spirit of the unsuccessful lover inhabits the body of the hapless bride. That is, the two love each other. This is the nature of the tragedy.

Alternative Title

Dybbuk (between two worlds) : bilingual edition / translated by Fernando Peñalosa.

Subject

• Yiddish drama > Translations into English

Language (note)

• Text in Yiddish and English; introduction in English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

9781494837532

OCLC

• 871215967
• SCSB-11144480

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library