Newly discovered photographs shed light on daily existence in the Pale of Settlement
| 7:00 AM Feb 1, 2010
In 1914, a Russian Jew writing under the name S. An-sky wrote a play called The Dybbuk. It concerns a young bride-to-be possessed by the spirit of her former lover, and it would go on to become one of the most popular plays in the Jewish- and Yiddish-theater repertoire. But An-sky’s pre-Dybbuk work might be ...
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