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The Dybbuk and the Yiddish Imagination: A Haunted Reader (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art (Hardcover)) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Dybbuk and the Yiddish ImaginationS. Ansky's play The Dybbuk is the most famous play in the Yiddish repertoire. It has been made into two films and three operas and has been staged all over the world. As an extraordinary product of the Yiddish imagination, its literary and religious roots, however, have never been thoroughly explored.Along with a new translation that conveys the brilliant supernatural poetry of the play, this book...
Full description- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- Published: 01 January 2001
- Format: Hardback 352 pages
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- Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) | Literary Studies: General | Short Stories | Folklore, Myths & Legends | Jewish Studies | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9780815628712 ISBN 10: 0815628714
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Full description for The Dybbuk and the Yiddish Imagination
S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk is the most famous play in the Yiddish repertoire. It has been made into two films and three operas and has been staged all over the world. As an extraordinary product of the Yiddish imagination, its literary and religious roots, however, have never been thoroughly explored.Along with a new translation that conveys the brilliant supernatural poetry of the play, this book comprises thirty highly diverse literary masterpieces dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, beginning with the first tale about a possession (1602). The result is a literary mosaic that shows a vast array of styles, from the earthy simplicity of homespun folk tales to the delicacy and elegance of polished literary expression. The anthology brings together a wide variety of stories, verse narratives, and even modern melodrama -- many never before translated into English and including Sholem Aleichem and Aizik Meyer Dik.
