

The Dybbuk
Author: S. Ansky
Narrator: a full cast
Unabridged: 1 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 04/16/2009
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Religious Philosophy
Author: S. Ansky
Narrator: a full cast
Unabridged: 1 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 04/16/2009
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Religious Philosophy
S. Ansky, Shloyme-Zanvel Rappaport (1863–1920), who wrote under the name Semyon Akimovich Ansky, was born in Belarus to a traditional, Yiddish-speaking Jewish family. He became a populist activist, ethnographer, and author of fiction, poetry, and drama in Yiddish and Russian. From 1911 to 1914, he traveled through villages as head of a Jewish ethnographic expedition. A story he heard during his researches became the foundation for his famous play, The Dybbuk.
A Dybbuk is a haunting and beautiful and haunting combination between a love story and a ghost story, growing out of the tradition of Yiddish theatre. The main story revolves around a young rabbinical student, Channon, whose beloved and promised bride, Leah, is denied to him, because of his poverty.......more
I read this play because I was curious as to how literature embraces Jewish mystical concepts, but it turned out that the author’s biography interested me more. He was raised religious in Eastern Europe, and it’s clear that he knew Hasidic history and thought. In the very first scene, the characters......more
The Dybbuk is a Hasidic star-crossed love story with elements of mysticism. The dybbuk is a very interesting figure, a malicious possessing spirit and the play makes use of this motif. But it's also more than that. The story of the play, and more importantly its many stagings is very rich. Ansky had......more
Utterly Ecstatic, Passionate, Erotic, Sacred, Stupefying. Up there with the greatest love stories of all time. The Sanctity of Sin.......more
Reading The Dybbuk in a second hardback printing was a revelation. Unlike with many modern editions, which leave photographs of how the play was staged out of the edition because of cost, this was very much a reader's rather than performer's edition of the play (think Samuel French for performers). T......more