The Dybbuk of Russian Playwright S. Ansky has been an international stage classic for 30 years. A lot of people were sure it would make first-class opera, but all attempts seemed to end in failure.

At the 1920 premiere of S. An-ski’s play The Dybbuk, the audience itself seemed possessed. The venue was the Elizeum Theater in Warsaw. Yiddish songwriter Joseph Rumshinsky was there that evening.

S. Ansky (the pseudonym of Shloyme Rappoport) wrote “The Dybbuk,” which had its Yiddish premiere by the Vilna Troupe in Warsaw in Dec. 9, 1920, at the conclusion of the 30-day mourning period ...

So says the hero of S. An-ski’s drama, the mysterious visitor Messenger who ... They enter a living person as a dybbuk – ‘to purify themselves’, says the Messenger.

Hersh Goldman Halloween is definitely not a Jewish holiday.  But it is as good a time as any for an article on Jewish spooks. One of  the most famous Jewish spooks is the Dybbuk.  “Dybbuk”, comes from ...

The room will be equipped with a HEPA air purifier. Yiddish films are treasures that bring back a glimpse of 1930’s Jewish life in Eastern Europe right before the Holocaust. Yet remarkably this genre ...

A cinematic journey on the trail of a mysterious filmmaker. Prince Michal Waszynski, Poland's top pre-war, director who later became an influential figure in the broader European film scene.

THE CHURCH AND THE AFGHAN WHIGS The Sydney dream-wavers, whose most recent album is this year’s high-concept “Eros Zeta & the Perfumed Guitars,” and the Cincinnati soul-rockers, whose 2022 ...

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