Wandering Soul - The Dybbuks Creator, S. An-Sky

Informationen zum Autor Gabriella Safran is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University. Klappentext Using Russian! Yiddish! Hebrew! and French sources! Safran recreates the neglected protean personality Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport! who would become S. An-sky--ethnographer! war correspondent! and author of the best-known Yiddish play! "The Dybbuk." Zusammenfassung A biography in English of S An-sky an ethnographer! war correspondent! author of the best-known Yiddish play! "The Dybbuk." It recreates this neglected protean figure who! with his passions! struggles! and art! anticipated the complicated identities of the European Jews who would follow him.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriella Safran, Safran Gabriella
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2010
• EAN: 9780674055704
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05570-4
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; HISTORY / Jewish, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Sociology & anthropology, Biography: writers, HISTORY / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence, HISTORY / Russia / General