![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ansky, pseudonym for Shloyme Zanul Rappoport, (1863-1920), was a Russian-born writer, politician, and folklorist. This volume features Tony Kushner's remarkable, imaginative adaptation and an afterword by Harold Bloom, Yale professor and celebrated literary critic.Īlso included is a selection of stories, fairy tales and parables translated into English for the first time by Joachim Neugroschel, illuminating many aspects of the Jewish mystical world, including possessions, transmigration parables and miracles. Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, A Dybbuk recounts the tale of a wealthy man's daughter possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved. The dybbuk, a dead person's soul that possesses a living person, is an ancient and fascinating part of Jewish folklore in Eastern Europe. Ansky, adapted and translated by Tony Kushner and Joachim Neugroschel. HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number ofĪ Dybbuk and Other Tales of the Supernatural by S. ![]()
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