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- Ansky and Moshonov, who both come from Bulgarian Jewish families, said that being in Bulgaria and acting in the firm allowed them to relive aspects of their early childhood.
www.timesofisrael.com/a-bulgarian-love-triangle-in-the-shadow-of-world-war-two/In WWII love story, Israeli actors face their Bulgarian roots
An-sky[a] (1863 – November 8, 1920), born Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, was a Jewish author, playwright, researcher of Jewish folklore, polemicist, and cultural and political activist. He is best known for his play The Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds, written in 1914, and for Di Shvue, the anthem of the Jewish socialist Bund.
S. Ansky was a Russian Jewish writer and folklorist best known for his play The Dybbuk. Ansky was educated in a Ḥasidic environment and as a young man was attracted to the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskala) and to the populist doctrines of the Narodniki, a group of socialist revolutionaries.
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Nov 8, 2015 · In 1914, Ansky wrote “The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds,” about a star-crossed couple whose love outlives the suicide of the young man, when his spirit occupies the body of the bride who was denied him in life. Ansky wrote it originally in Russian, and translated it to Yiddish.
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Ansky (pseudonym of Shloyme Zaynvl Rapoport, 1863-1920) was a Russian-Jewish ethnographer and playwright whose signature work The Dybbuk played a seminal role in shaping modern Yiddish and Hebrew theater.
In the summer of 1915 the Russian Jewish writer and ethnographer known as Ansky visited the town of Ludmir (in Russian, Vladimir Volinski). Like other Jewish communities in the western reaches of the Russian Empire, Ludmir was caught between advancing Austro-Hungarian and retreating Russian armies. Ansky knew the area well.
Feb 25, 2005 · The Enemy at His Pleasure: A Journey Through the Jewish Pale of Settlement During World War I. By S. Ansky. Edited and Translated By Joachim Neugroschel
