The worlds of S. An-sky : a Russian Jewish intellectual at the turn of the century

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Contents List of Figures and Map Preface and Acknowledgments Gabriella Safran and Steven J. Zipperstein Timeline: Semyon Akimovich An-sky/Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport Gabriella Safran Key Archival Sources Key Printed Sources Introduction: An-sky and the Guises of Modern Jewish Culture Steven J. Zipperstein 1. An-sky, Sholem Aleichem, and the Master Narrative of Russian Jewry David Roskies 2. Paradigmatic Times: An-sky's Two Worlds Sylvie Anne Goldberg 3. An-sky in 1892: The Jew and the Petersburg Myth Gabriella Safran 4. "We Are Too Late": An-sky and the Paradigm of No Return Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 5. Spiritual and Physical Strength in An-sky's Literary Imagination Brian Horowitz 6. The Russian Jew as a Modern Hero: Identity Construction in An-sky's Writings Mikhail Krutikov 7. "Youth in Revolt": An-sky's In Shtrom and the Instant Fictionalization of 1905 Jonathan Frankel 8. Inscribing An-sky's Dybbuk in Russian and Jewish Letters Seth L. Wolitz 9. The Musical Strands of An-sky's Texts and Contexts Izaly Zemtsovsky 10. "Fardibekt!": An-sky's Polish Legacy Michael C. Steinlauf 11. An-sky, Evgeny Vakhtangov, and The Dybbuk Vladislav Ivanov 12. An-sky and the Ethnography of Jewish Women Nathaniel Deutsch 13. "An Academy Where Folklore Will be Studied": An-sky and the Jewish Museum Benjamin Lukin 14. Ethnic Loyalty and International Modernism: The An-sky Expeditions and the Russian Avant-Garde John E. Bowlt 15. An-sky, the Vilna Jewish Historic-Ethnographic Society, and the Shaping of Modern Jewish Culture Cecile E. Kuznitz 16. The Father of Jewish Ethnography? Jack Kugelmass Appendix: The Dybbuk S. An-sky, Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk): Censored Variant Introduction by Vladislav Ivanov Translators' Note Craig Cravens and Gabriella Safran 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 Glossary Vladislav Ivanov Notes Index