The play has inspired various artistic and musical treatments of the legend.
Productions followed in German, English, Polish, Ukranian, Swedish, Bulgarian and French. To his misfortune, he is successful and becomes a dybbuk which enters the body of his beloved.Īnsky's play, which has become an international classic, was first produced in Yiddish by the Vilna troupe in 1920 and then, in the Hebrew translation of Bialik, by the Habimah company in Moscow, Tel Aviv, and New York. The pledge is broken by the girl's father, who betroths her to another, so the boy, in despair, dabbles in black arts. The story of Ansky's play is about two young lovers secretly pledged to each other before birth by the oath of their fathers. In Jewish folklore, a dybbuk is a wandering soul which enters into a living person and talks through his mouth, presenting a separate and alien personality. It was during these trips that Ansky learned about the dybbuk. He worked as a blacksmith, bookbinder, factory hand, and teacher, and from 1911 to 1914 he traveled through the villages of several countries as head of the Jewish ethnographic expedition collecting material on folk legends, hasidic tales, and stories about Jewish poverty.
Ansky was the pseudonym of Solomon Zainwill Rapaport, author and folklorist (1863-1920) who was born in Chashnik, White Russia 1863.
Though the idea was never abandoned, other projects, including West Side Story, always seemed to intervene. Ansky's play, "The Dybbuk", after they had just completed their first collaboration, Fancy Free, in 1944. Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins first began talking about creating a ballet based on S.
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