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The Dybbuk and the Yiddish Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Joachim Neugroschel
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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The Dybbuk is arguably the most famous play in the Yiddish repertoire and plays an intrinsic part in the cultural system that created the Yiddish imagination. A
The Dybbuk and the Yiddish Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Joachim Neugroschel
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-12-01 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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he most famous play in the Yiddish repertoire, S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk has been made into two films and three operas and has been staged all over the world. As
The Dybbuk
Language: en
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Authors: S. Ansky
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-15 - Publisher: Open Road Media

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“An altogether excellent anthology, this volume offers a superior introduction to the brilliant, brooding works of a Yiddish master” (Publishers Weekly). Th
Dybbuks and Jewish Women in Social History, Mysticism and Folklore
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How and why a person comes to be possessed by a dybbuk—the possession of a living body by the soul of a deceased person—and what consequences ensue from suc
Between Worlds
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After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as "The