Author Description

Provides an incomparable portrait of an assimilated Jewish artist who finds his way home through the folk culture of the Jewish people. This anthology, the third volume in Schocken's Library of Yiddish Classics, presents a broad selection of Ansky's work, including a new translation of The Dybbuk (which was made into the last great Yiddish film produced in Poland in 1937), short stories, and autobiographical sketches. Just prior to World War I, Ansky envisioned and led.