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  • Pioneers

    The First Breach

    by S. An-sky ...
    Translated by Rose Waldman ...
    Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
    When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what’s in store for them. Zalmen is a freethinker who has come to the rural town to earn his living as a tutor. Yet, rather than teach Hebrew, he plans to teach his students the Russian language and other secular subjects. Residents of the town ... Read more

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  • 1915 Diary of S. An-sky

    A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front

    by S. A. An-Sky ...
    Translated by Polly Zavadivker ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    The WWI diary of the Russian Jewish activist and author of The Dybbuk presents "an unforgettable portrait of life, culture, and destruction" (Eugene Avrutin, author of Jews and the Imperial State).By the outbreak of World War I, S. An-sky was a well-known writer, a longtime revolutionary, and an ethnographer who pioneered the collection of Jewish folklore in Russia's Pale of Settlement. In 1915, ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Dybbuk

    Unabridged

    1 hour 35 min

    In the folklore of Eastern European Jewry, a dybbuk is a wandering soul that comes to rest in the body of a living person. In this case, the dybbuk is an impoverished student that possesses a young bride on her wedding day. She is taken to a great Chassidic rabbi for exorcism. But before he can expel the spirit, the sage must discover who the dybbuk was in life, why he has possessed the maiden, ... Read more

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  • The Dybbuk (S. Anski) - Theater Play

    by Schlomo Ansky ...
    "The Dybbuk" original play by S. Ansky (1863 – 1920) a.k.a Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport. Adapted in English by David Serero. One of the most important Yiddish story and play of all time. ... Read more

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  • Food of Israel

    Authentic Recipes from the Land of Milk and Honey

    by Sherry Ansky ...
    Series series Food Of The World Cookbooks
    Nowhere is the Israeli passion for life more pronounced than around their food tables at home and in their restaurantsThe storied land of Israel is best known as the cradle of three great world religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Since ancient times, the rich interplay of cultures in this region has fostered one of the world's most diverse and fascinating cuisines. Now you can take part in ... Read more

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  • Pioneers

    A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s

    by S. A. An-Sky ...
    Translated by Michael R. Katz ...
    Series series Jewish Literature and Culture
    "A unique work of art" that captures "the experiences of an important generation of Russian Jews. . . . and an important document of its time." —Gabriella Safran, author of Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-SkyS. An-Sky's novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious upbringing to adopt a secular and ... Read more

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  • The Lost Letter

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    Historian Alexandra Rich presents the full untold story of how one of history's bravest revolts ended in one of its greatest crimes.In 1943, the Nazis liquidated Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. A year later, they threatened to complete the city's destruction by deporting its remaining residents. A sophisticated and cosmopolitan community a thousand years old was facing its final days—and then opportunity ... Read more

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  • Jerusalem

    A Cookbook

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