S. Ansky
S. Ansky · Arts & Literature
Playwright
1863, Vitebsk (now Belarus) — 1920, Warsaw, Poland
Russian Empire · Poland
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S. Ansky (pen name of Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport) was a Russian-Jewish author, folklorist and activist best known for the Yiddish play The Dybbuk, a classic of Jewish theatre drawing on mystical folklore, and for leading a major ethnographic expedition to document Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement. He also wrote 'Di Shvue,' the anthem of the Jewish socialist Bund. He was Jewish.
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