Habimah's The Dybbuk, on the cover of Our Illustrated Review

Title

Habimah's The Dybbuk, on the cover of Our Illustrated Review

Date

1926

Description

The cover of the Polish-Jewish illustrated periodical from March 1926 that featured an image from the third act of S.Y. Ansky's The Dybbuk as it was performed in Hebrew by Habimah Theater in Warsaw. In 1917, Ansky discussed a first staging of the play in Moscow by the famous Russian director Stanislavski but that idea collapsed under political forces. Ansky died suddlenly in 1920 in Warsaw, and within a month of death, The Vilna Troupe performed the play in Yiddish for the first time in Warsaw. Ansky had viewed a reading of the play, but never lived to see a full-blown production. In little time, it became a sensation, first in Yiddish, than in other languages and on stages throughout the world.

Source

RG8

Contributor

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Language

Polish

Original Format

Newspaper

Original Language

Polish

Translation

OUR ILLUSTRATED REVIEW
Performance of The Dybbuk by the Hebrew Theater Habimah

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Citation

“Habimah's The Dybbuk,on the cover of Our Illustrated Review,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed December 24, 2024, https://shaulgoldman.yivo.org/items/show/2237.

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