The worlds of S. An-sky
Subtitle: a Russian Jewish intellectual at the turn of the century
By: edited by Gabriella Safran and Steven J. Zipperstein.
Contributors: Safran, Gabriella, 1967-; Zipperstein, Steven J., 1950-; An-ski, S., 1863-1920.; Cravens, Craig Stephen, 1965-; Stanford University.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
Subjects: An-ski, S., 1863-1920 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Proceedings of a conference held at Stanford University, March 17-19, 2001.
Includes translation of An-ski's Dibeḳ into English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : An-sky and the guises of modern Jewish culture / Steven J. Zipperstein; title: An-sky, Sholem Aleichem, and the master narrative of Russian Jewry / David Roskies; title: Paradigmatic times : An-sky's two worlds / Sylvie Anne Goldberg; title: An-sky in 1892 : the Jew and the Petersburg myth / Gabriella Safran; title: We are too late : An-sky and the paradigm of no return / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern; title: Spiritual and physical strength in An-sky's literary imagination / Brian Horowitz; title: The Russian Jew as a modern hero : identity construction in An-sky's writings / Mikhail Krutikov; title: Youth in revolt : An-sky's In shtrom and the instant fictionalization of 1905 / Jonathan Frankel; title: Inscribing an-sky's Dybbuk in Russian and Jewish letters / Seth l. Wolitz; title: The musical strands of An-sky's texts and contexts / Izaly Zemtsovsky; title: Fardibekt! : An-sky's Polish legacy / Michael C. Steinlauf; title: An-sky, Evgeny Vakhtangov, and the Dybbuk / Vladislav Ivanov; title: An-sky and the ethnography of Jewish women / Nathaniel Deutsch; title: An academy where folklore will be studied : An-sky and the Jewish Museum / Benjamin Lukin; title: Ethnic loyalty and international modernism : the An-sky expeditions and the Russian avant-garde / John E. Bowlt; title: An-sky, the Vilna Jewish Historic-Ethnographic Society, and the shaping of modern Jewish culture / Cecile E. Kuznitz; title: The father of Jewish ethnography? / Jack kugelmass; title: Appendix : Between two worlds (The dybbuk) : censored variant / introduction by Vladislav Ivanov; title: Translators' note / Craig Cravens and Gabriella Safran; title: Between two worlds (The dybbuk) : a Jewish dramatic legend in four acts with prologue and epilogue / by S. an-sky ; edited by Vladislav Ivanov; translated by Craig Cravens.