| The Dybbuk: A Play in Four Acts Revised Edition Contributor(s): Ansky, S. (Author), Alsberg, Henry G. (Translator), Katzin, Winifred (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0871402629 ISBN-13: 9780871402622 Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1972 Annotation: The dybbuk, a dead person's soul that possesses a living person, is an ancient and fascinating part of Jewish folklore in Eastern Europe. The stories in this collection, none of which has been translated before, illuminate the different aspects of the Jewish mystical world, including possessions, transmigration, fairy tales, parables and miracles. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Literary Criticism | European - German - Drama | Religious & Liturgical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5" W x 8" (0.37 lbs) 148 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Topical - New Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Dybbuk, regarded as the classic drama of the Yiddish stage, has long frightened yet fascinated audiences throughout the world. Based on Jewish folklore, its dark implications of mysterious, other-worldly forces at work in a quaint and simple village make for gripping, suspenseful theater. To the Chassidic Jews of eastern Europe, a dybbuk was not a legend or a myth; rather it remained a constant and portentous possibility. During that age of pervasive mysticism, when rabbis became miracle workers and the sinister arts of the Kabbala were fearsomely invoked, it was never doubted that a discontented spirit from the dead could cross the barrier between the "real" and the "other" worlds to enter a living human body. The Dybbuk is a masterful play, full of deep-rooted obsessions and dramatic suspense, fascinating for the glimpse it provides of the rich, poetic, and often tragic culture of the Chassidim. In this classic translation by Henry Alsberg and Winifred Katzin, the authentic cadences of the original Yiddish are deftly preserved. |