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When the "Dybbuk" was first
presented in the Neighborhood'
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critics went wild over it and the
audiences, both Gentiles and Jews,
were thrilled and most profoundly
impressed by its dramatic and
colorful contents, replete with an
occult and esoteric philosophy.
When this play was given in Yid-
dish by the "Wilna Troupe," the
effect on the Yiddish speaking
public was a thousand-fold aug-
mented, because it struck a more
comprehensive an d responsive
chord. Those of Chassidic descent
were Stirred and harkened back
to the days of their youth, per-
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penings as pictured in this drama.
Then came the "Habima" and of-
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rebuilding of Palestine consti-
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An
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time. It is hoped that the composer
has fathomed the proper nuances
and symbolisms that permeate this
Chassidic legend.
The theater-going public is quite
familiar with the "Dybbuk" in a
number of languages. Let us now
portray the author of it, the man
who called himself An-ski, which is
merely a pseudonym, and whose
real name was Solomon Seinvil
Rapoport.
Anski was both a Russian and
Yiddish writer, as our brief biog-
raphy will show later. Born in
Mit in Witebsk, he spent his
childhood days within a Chassidic
environment. The Haskalah litera-
ture, however, soon opened up to but also strictly modern in his con-
him unexplored vistas, and after ceptions: the old and the new were
gaining a thorough knowledge of to him one continuum. Ile not
several languages and other cul- only faithfully pictures Chassid-
tural subjects, he finally became a ism, but also the life of the Chas-
private tutor at the age of 17. sidim, their innermost thoughts,
While still a youth, he joined the sentiments and traditions.
early underground Russian revolu-
Perhaps it might be said J. L.
tion, but in consequence of it had Peretz was the greater artist of
to flee as a political refugee to the two, considering his artistic
Paris, and in order to eke out a stories and dramas based upon
livelihood he learned the craft of Chassidic life. However, as an
bookbinding. For many years he aesthetist, he failed to grasp the
practiced this and many other Chassidic sp.rit in its full mean-
trades. In 1910 he returned to ing. Anski, how e.er, comprehend.
Russia and began to write in Yid- ed, or shall we say s,ns.11 it al-
dish.
most intuitively—both the r..al and
Anski wrote tales, novels, short the Mystic in it, two opposing
stories, and last, but not least, concepts, that were still one in
dramas, mostly of Chassidic life. Chassidic circles. It is true Anski
His Chassidic novels may be di- does not reach the literary heights
vided into three groups, which may of Peretz, but he gives us a true
be designated collectively by the mirror of life. Peretz made Chas-
main titles of "Old," "Chassid- sidism an aesthetic goal in litera-
ish" and "Misnagdish." Another ture, Anal(' however, painted in
collection bears the caption "Auf vivid and real colors on the can-
die alte yessodos" (Upon the Old vas of life.
Foundations). During the Euro-
The "Dybbuk" is pulsating with
peon war he traveled extensively Chassidic life; its author pene-
in the devastated eastern provinces trates deeply into its mystic strata
and published subsequently a com- and gives us both true, and sym-
prehensive prose work, "Der Yid- bolic reflections thereof. No matter
dishe Churban"—mirroring the de- how incomprehensible or abstruse
struction in Poland, Galicia and this drama may appear to the
Bukowina—a diary of the years reader, one thing is certain: Anski
1914 to 1917. A valuable contribu- does not exaggerate nor does he
tion to contemporary history af- sacrifice veracity for dramatic ef-
fords his volume "Sichronoth" fect. The theme is obviously leg-
(Reminiscences). His chief work, endary, and yet the belief in a
however, remains the dramatic Dybbuk has not entirely disap-
legend "Between Two Worlds," peared even at the present; it
with the subtitle "Der Dybbuk." sporadically flares up in certain
A second Chassidic drama entitled localities. To the writer's own
"Day and Night" remains only a knowledge it was quite prevalent
fragmentary attempt. He also in Chassidic circles about 50 years
wrote a comedy, a few playlets and ago. Every epileptic and psycho.
a number of poems. In November, path was treated in the Ghetto as
1920, just a few days before the if possessed by a Dybbuk and
appearance of the "Dybbuk" on brought to the "Good Jew" or
the Wilna stage, Anski died.
Wonder Rabbi who tried to exor-
Anski is one of the most remark. cise the evil spirit or the lost soul
able phenomena in Yiddish litera- without a world of its own.
ture. At first an entire stranger
I wonder whether dramatic
to it he mastered by sheer dint of critics fully appreciate in the
effort the Yiddish tongue (quite "Dybbuk" the role of the messen-
late in life). Ile first wrote in ger or "Meshulach." To me he
Russian, paying little heed to Yid- seems the characterization of
dish, and only after a long so- benign Jewish Mephisto, a sort of a
journ in the highways and byways
Jewish spirit of negation, who
of "Welt-literatur" he decided to always utters the truth at the
return to the source of his nativity. proper moment and tells it both
Anski, though, a devoted revolu- tersely and symbolically. He is al-
tionist and Russian publicist, cast- ways there when the least wanted;
ing fiery tirades against the ty- he is the voice of conscience in the
ranny of Czardom and fanning the trial scene. Another thing that
new breath of freedom that faintly strikes me as lifelike and true are
swept over Russia in those times, the mystic dances of the Chas-
he remained to his own people a sidim. They are most intricately
stranger. It seemed as if he delib- and deeply interwoven in the fa-
erately tore down the bridges lead- bric of Chassidic life; so are their
ing back to them; his Jewish past
songs. No matter whether joyful
was entirely indifferent to him. or sad, the Chassid sings, "Singt
Then, something happened—you der Chassidel, him, ham."
might call it a miracle: Anski
Ile dances and sings, he laughs
stepped out from the circle of and sings, he weeps and sings.
Slavism into that of an intimate Anski left the Ghetto a stranger
Jewish contact; he returned to the and returned to it a changed man.
land of his dreams and his youth Ile began to produce in his native
—to the forgotten past. From a tongue, a radical change from his
Russian journalist he suddenly former Russian. His outstanding
metamorphosed into a Yiddish work will forever remain the "Dyb-
writer, and his latent genius soon buk" which I regard as the Jewish
found in him a poet, a dramatic Faust, with Leah as the final
poet. The source of his dramatic' apotheosis. Ile did not give us
inspiration was ; of Chassidic much, he gave us the best that will
origin, a sphere wherein he was ultimately survive.
born and lived. Ile knew it thor.,
oughly, he felt it profoundly, he
was continually en rapport with it,
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and hence everything he created
bears its stamp; it is a true, live Jewish Literary News and Notes
and palpitant picture of both the
old and the new.
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