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ISBN-10: 1559361379
ISBN-13: 9781559361378
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Publish Date: 12/01/1997
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.40" W, 0.50" H

A Dybbuk: And Other Tales of the Supernatural

Translator: Joachim Neugroschel

Paperback

Price: $16.95

Overview

The first part of the book features Tony Kushner’s adaptation of The Dybbuk by S. Ansky from Joachim Neugroschel’s translation, with an afterword by Harold Bloom. Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, The Dybuuk recounts the tale of a wealthy man’s daughter who is possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved. Also included in this volume is a selection of stories translated into English for the first time by Joachim Neugroschel, illuminating different aspects of the Jewish mystical world, including possessions, transmigration, fairy tales, parables and miracles.

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Reviews
"The translation of Joachim Neugroschel, savvily adapted by Tony Kushner, and now further revised by him as A Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds, all come funnily, furiously, crotchetily alive." -John Simon, New York Magazine

"Kushner's contemporary reading has served to burnish the original's mixture of spiritual exhalation and material poverty, abstract symbolism and exotic superstition." -J. Hoberman, The Forward

"S. Ansky's mystical Yiddish drama The Dybbuk is a play almost perfectly suited to Tony Kushner's tastes and talents. With its evocative picture of a metaphysical world that shadows our own, and the spiritual price to be paid for avaricious self-interest, it has intriguing correspondences with Kushner's own metaphysical epic, Angels in America." -Charles Isherwood, Variety

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Details

ISBN-10: 1559361379
ISBN-13: 9781559361378
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Publish Date: 12/01/1997
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.40" W, 0.50" H
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