Instead, the performance of the play became a catalyst for legitimizing the ongoing process of creating and recreating American Jewish identity out of a variety of cultural, social, and religious practices. The backers of the production had intended to bring about a revitalization of Jewish life in the city and the unification of a Jewish community splintered along lines of class, regional origin, and religious practice. But then, just before the wedding, his spirit enters Leah in the form of a dybbuk (from a root meaning to cling, to adhere) and refuses to leave. The director, Nachum Zemach, had worldwide renown as an artist in Yiddish theater. He had died of pneumonia 30 days before the premiere, which the Vilna Troupe hastily produced as a. The players were a mix of elite San Francisco Jews of Western European descent and recent immigrants from Eastern Europe steeped in Yiddishkait, an approach to Jewish life that sought to transform and fortify the commonplace language and culture of Eastern European Jewry into a growing range of artistic, literary, intellectual, and social movements. On that fateful night in Warsaw 100 years ago, the only thing missing was Ansky himself. This production, only the third English-language staging of the play in the United States, was a signal event in the evolution of Jewish American identity in California and across the West. Ansky's The Dybbuk and How it Transformed American Jewish Theatre The Jewish Theological Seminary 6.3K subscribers Subscribe 667 views 1 year ago A webinar. More Buying Choices1. In October 1928, an amateur troupe at San Francisco’s Temple Emanu-El performed the most famous play of Yiddish theater, The Dybbuk by S. 4.5 out of 5 stars9 Paperback 25.9725.97 Get it as soon as Wed, Aug 24 FREE Shipping by Amazon Only 3 left in stock - order soon.
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