| The Worlds of S. An-Sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century Contributor(s): Safran, Gabriella (Editor), Zipperstein, Steven J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 080475344X ISBN-13: 9780804753449 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $36.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: "This text will prove invaluable to scholars, both as a reference guide on An-sky as a historic and literary text on a remarkable man and the period in which he lived. General readers with an interest in Russian or Jewish history, culture, and literature will find that this text is readily accessible and enthralling to read."-- History in Reviewx |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 839.183 |
| LCCN: 2005032415 |
| Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History & Culture (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.27" H x 6.1" W x 8.96" (1.82 lbs) 576 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport, known as An-sky (1863-1920), the author of the best known play in the Hebrew and Yiddish languages, "The Dybbuk," was a figure of immense versatility and also ambiguity in Russian and Jewish intellectual, literary, and political spheres. He was a leading Russian populist; he was the author of the poem adopted as the anthem of the Jewish Socialist Labor Bund; he is credited with being the founder of the field of Jewish ethnography; and he wrote one of the most influential works of Jewish catastrophe literature in modern times, his masterpiece "Hurbn Galitsye," on the travails of East European Jews in the First World War. This volume is the most complete examination of An-sky ever produced. It draws together leading historians, ethnographers, literary scholars, and others in a far-ranging, multidisciplinary exploration. It also contains numerous photographs culled from archives in the former Soviet Union, a superb English translation of an early Russian draft--among the very first--of "The Dybbuk," and a timeline that covers all of An-sky's peripatetic life. Finally, it includes a compact disk combining material drawn from An-sky's own 1912-14 field recordings of Jewish songs, together with contemporary renditions, recorded at Stanford, of the Russian and Yiddish music that An-sky wrote, collected, and heard. Includes a CD of An-sky's music, in Russian and Yiddish |