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The Dybbuk Century

Author : Debra Caplan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472903853
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book The Dybbuk Century written by Debra Caplan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Yiddish Empire

Author : Debra Caplan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472037250
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Yiddish Empire written by Debra Caplan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the untold story of a traveling Yiddish theater company and traces their far- reaching influence

The Dybbuk and Other Writings

Author : S. Ansky
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300092509
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Dybbuk and Other Writings written by S. Ansky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents The Dybbuk, S. Ansky's well-known drama of mystical passion and demonic possession, along with little-known works of his autobiographical and fantastical prose fiction and an excerpt from his four-volume chronicle of the Eastern Front in the First World War, The Destruction of Galacia.

Dybbuks and Jewish Women in Social History, Mysticism and Folklore

Author : Rachel Elior
Publisher : Urim Publications
ISBN 13 : 9655240983
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Dybbuks and Jewish Women in Social History, Mysticism and Folklore written by Rachel Elior and published by Urim Publications. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 such possession, form the subject of this book. Though possession by a dybbuk has traditionally been understood as punishment for a terrible sin, it can also be seen as a mechanism used by desperate individuals—often women—who had no other means of escape from the demands and expectations of an all-encompassing patriarchal social order. Dybbuks and Jewish Women examines these and other aspects of dybbuk possession from historical and phenomenological perspectives, with particular attention to the gender significance of the subject.

The Dybbuk

Author : S. An-Ski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Dybbuk written by S. An-Ski and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dybbuk is a haunting tale about ill-fated love, possession, and exorcism in a small Jewish town in Eastern Europe. It was originally called "Between Two Worlds," which is also an apt description of the life of this unusual writer.

Jewish Theatre

Author : Edna Nahshon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004173358
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Theatre written by Edna Nahshon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a frequently used term, Jewish Theatre has become a contested concept that defies precise definition. Is it theatre by Jews? For Jews? About Jews? Though there are no easy answers for these questions, "Jewish Theatre: A Global View," contributes greatly to the conversation by offering an impressive collection of original essays written by an international cadre of noted scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel. The essays discuss historical and current texts and performance practices, covering a wide gamut of genres and traditions.

Between Worlds

Author : J. H. Chajes
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201558
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Between Worlds written by J. H. Chajes and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Age of the Demoniac," accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near East but spreading rapidly westward, spirit possession, both benevolent and malevolent, emerged as perhaps the most characteristic form of religiosity in early modern Jewish society. Adopting a comparative historical approach, J. H. Chajes uncovers this strain of Jewish belief to which scant attention has been paid. Informed by recent research in historical anthropology, Between Worlds provides fascinating descriptions of the cases of possession as well as analysis of the magical techniques deployed by rabbinic exorcists to expel the ghostly intruders. Seeking to understand the phenomenon of spirit possession in its full complexity, Chajes delves into its ideational framework—chiefly the doctrine of reincarnation—while exploring its relation to contemporary Christian and Islamic analogues. Regarding spirit possession as a form of religious expression open to—and even dominated by—women, Chajes initiates a major reassessment of women in the history of Jewish mysticism. In a concluding section he examines the reception history of the great Hebrew accounts of spirit possession, focusing on the deployment of these "ghost stories" in the battle against incipient skepticism in the turbulent Jewish community of seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Exploring a phenomenon that bridged learned and ignorant, rich and poor, men and women, Jews and Gentiles, Between Worlds maps for the first time a prominent feature of the early modern Jewish religious landscape, as quotidian as it was portentous: the nexus of the living and the dead.

The Dybbuk and the Yiddish Imagination

Author : Joachim Neugroschel
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815628729
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Dybbuk and the Yiddish Imagination written by Joachim Neugroschel and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 an extraordinary product of the Yiddish imagination, however, its literary and religious roots have never been thoroughly explored. With a new translation of Ansky’s play that conveys its brilliant supernatural poetry, this anthology comprises thirty highly diverse literary masterpieces dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Beginning with the first Yiddish tale about a possession (1602), these works influenced Ansky or formed a cultural and spiritual network that shows us how the era and tradition precipitated the drama. The result is a literary mosaic that shows a vast array of styles, from the earthy simplicity of homespun folk tales to the delicacy and elegance of polished literary expression. Joachim Neugroschel brings together a wide variety of stories, verse narratives, and even modern melodrama—many never before translated into English.

The Dyke and the Dybbuk

Author : Ellen Galford
Publisher : Seal Press (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9781580050128
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Dyke and the Dybbuk written by Ellen Galford and published by Seal Press (CA). This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For abandoning her lover, a lesbian is cursed by an evil spirit--her descendants will bear only daughters--but a sage outwits the spirit by trapping it in a tree. Two hundred years later lightning releases the spirit and it goes after the woman's 20th Century descendant, Rainbow Rosenbloom, a taxi driver and film critic.

Dybbuk and Other Tales of the Supernatural

Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559361378
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Dybbuk and Other Tales of the Supernatural written by Tony Kushner and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1998 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, 'A dybbuk' recounts the tale of a wealthy man's daughter who is possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved.

דער דיבוק

Author : S. An-Ski
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781494837532
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book דער דיבוק written by S. An-Ski and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DYBBUK (BETWEEN TWO WORLDS) YIDDISH-ENGLISH EDITION x, 192 pp. Yiddish and English on facing pages. The Dybbuk, by S. An-sky (1863-1920) is the crown jewel of the Jewish theatre, the most renowned, most beloved, most translated, and most performed of all Jewish plays. It was first performed in Yiddish by the Vilna Troupe in Warsaw in 1920, and by the Habima Theatre in Moscow in 1922. It has subsequently been performed thousands of times all over the world in a score of languages. It is still being performed well into the 21st Century. As an agnostic Socialist, An-sky enigmatically wrote this play which favorably depicts a late 19th Century Hasidic community. A young maiden in love with one youth being forced to marry another is the kernel of the play around which the rest is developed: the dybbuk himself. A dybbuk is usually defined as a malevolent spirit that inhabits the body of a living person. An-sky's dybbuk is unique in that the spirit of the unsuccessful lover inhabits the body of the hapless bride. That is, the two love each other. This is the nature of the tragedy. ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR Fernando Peñalosa, born in 1925 in Berkeley, California, is Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, California State University, Long Beach. He has carried out research in California, Hawaii, Mexico, Guatemala, Israel, and Macedonia, and has written and published books in a number of fields. A convert to Judaism in 1965, Peñalosa is selftaught in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Jewish studies. He has published translations from Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Akatek Mayan, and from and to Spanish. A more remote connection to Judaism is documented by the frequent occurrence of the surname Peñalosa in the archives of the Spanish Inquisition. His family is descended from a Converso who came to Mexico with Hernán Cortés and the other Spanish invaders in 1520.

Aviva vs. the Dybbuk

Author : Mari Lowe
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1646141520
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Aviva vs. the Dybbuk written by Mari Lowe and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who now can’t always get out of bed in the morning. As tensions escalate in the Jewish community of Beacon with incidents of vandalism and a swastika carved into new concrete poured near the synagogue...so does the tension grow between Aviva and Kayla and the girls at their school, and so do the actions of the dybbuk grow worse. Could real harm be coming Aviva's way? And is it somehow related to the "accident" that took her father years ago? Aviva vs. the Dybbuk is a compelling, tender story about friendship and community, grief and healing, and one indomitable girl who somehow manages to connect them all.

The Dybbuk

Author : Morris M. Faierstein
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438497970
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Dybbuk written by Morris M. Faierstein and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dybbuk is the first comprehensive study of the historical and kabbalistic sources of the dybbuk phenomenon, from the first recorded case of dybbuk possession in Safed in 1571 onward. Dybbuk possession differs from possession by demons or Satan. Its origin is in the Kabbalistic concept of gilgul (transmigration) for sins that are so grievous that Gehenna is not sufficient punishment, and the soul must therefore wander until expiation is found. The dybbuk can temporarily find refuge in animals or people and can only be exorcised by a Baal Shem, a great kabbalist or expert in Jewish magic. In addition to describing the history and evolution of this concept, The Dybbuk includes English translations of all dybbuk stories discussed in the book, many translated for the first time.

Open Wounds

Author : Martin Kagel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472132849
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Open Wounds written by Martin Kagel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the irreverent theater of George Tabori and its enduring legacy within Holocaust theater

A Dybbuk

Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559366982
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book A Dybbuk written by Tony Kushner and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning adaptation of S. Ansky's mystical dramatic legend The Dybbuk with previously unpublished folklore.

Spirit Possession in Judaism

Author : Matt Goldish
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814330036
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Spirit Possession in Judaism written by Matt Goldish and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary collection of essays is the first to approach the phenomenon of spirit possession among Jews from a multidisciplinary perspective. What beliefs have Jews held about spirit possession? Have Jewish people believed themselves to be possessed by spirits? If so, what sorts of spirits were they? Have Jews' conceptions of possession been the same as those of their Christian and Muslim neighbors? These are some of the questions addressed in these thirteen essays, which together explore spirit possession in a wide range of temporal and geographic contexts. The phenomena known as spirit possession are both very widespread and very difficult to explain. The late Raphael Patai initiated study of spirit possession as found in the Jewish world in the post-Talmudic period by taking a folkloric and anthropological approach to the subject. Other scholars have opened up new avenues of inquiry through discussions of the topic in connection with Jewish mystical and magical traditions. The essays in this collection expand the variety of approaches to the subject, addressing Jewish possession phenomena from the points of view of religion, mysticism, literature, anthropology, psychology, history, and folklore. Scholarly views and popular traditions, benevolent spirits and malevolent shades, exorcism, social control, messianic implications, madness, literary structure, and a host of other topics are brought into the discussion of spirit possession in Jewish culture. This juxtaposition of approaches among the essays in this volume, some of which analyze the same texts in different ways, creates a broad foundation on which to contemplate the meaning of spirit possession.

New York’s Yiddish Theater

Author : Edna Nahshon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541074
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book New York’s Yiddish Theater written by Edna Nahshon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the audiences on Broadway. Though these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European, Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the city at the time), their artistic innovations, energetic style, and engagement with politics and the world around them came to influence all facets of the American stage. Vividly illustrated and with essays from leading historians and critics, this book recounts the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and crossover to the broader American culture. These performances grappled with Jewish nationalism, labor relations, women's rights, religious observance, acculturation, and assimilation. They reflected a range of genres, from tear-jerkers to experimental theater. The artists who came of age in this world include Stella Adler, Eddie Cantor, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers. The story of New York's Yiddish theater is a tale of creativity and legacy and of immigrants who, in the process of becoming Americans, had an enormous impact on the country's cultural and artistic development.