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oapen-20.500.12657-747632023-08-28T08:30:45Z The Dybbuk Century Caplan, Debra Moss, Rachel Yiddish theater, Hebrew theater, Polish theater, The Dybbuk, dybbuks, An-sky, Ansky, Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Vilna Troupe, Habima, Habimah, Jewish theater, Jewish plays, Polish-Jewish theater, Theater history bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AN Theatre studies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman by a dislocated spirit, opened in Warsaw. In the century that followed, The Dybbuk became a theatrical conduit for a wide range of discourses about Jews, belonging, and modernity. This timeless Yiddish play about spiritual possession beyond the grave would go on to exert a remarkable and unforgettable impact on modern theater, film, literature, music, and culture. The Dybbuk Century collects essays from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore the play’s original Yiddish and Hebrew productions and offer critical reflections on the play’s enduring influence. The collection will appeal to scholars, students, and theater practitioners, as well as general readers. 2023-08-03T08:00:56Z 2023-08-03T08:00:56Z 2023 book 9780472076437 9780472056439 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74763 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9780472903856.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.11522250 10.3998/mpub.11522250 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 9780472076437 9780472056439 306 open access
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A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman by a dislocated spirit, opened in Warsaw. In the century that followed, The Dybbuk became a theatrical conduit for a wide range of discourses about Jews, belonging, and modernity. This timeless Yiddish play about spiritual possession beyond the grave would go on to exert a remarkable and unforgettable impact on modern theater, film, literature, music, and culture.
The Dybbuk Century collects essays from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore the play’s original Yiddish and Hebrew productions and offer critical reflections on the play’s enduring influence. The collection will appeal to scholars, students, and theater practitioners, as well as general readers.
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