S. Ansky

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S. Ansky was a Russian-Jewish writer, folklorist, and playwright best known for his seminal Yiddish drama "The Dybbuk."

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S. Ansky canonical 3
S. An-sky 1

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instanceOf Russian Jew
ethnographer
folklorist
journalist
person
playwright
revolutionary
writer
activeIn Pale of Settlement
St. Petersburg
Warsaw
alsoKnownAs Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport
surface form: Shloyme Zanvl Rapoport

Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport
surface form: Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport
birthName Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport
burialPlace Warsaw
causeOfDeath heart attack
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
dateOfBirth 1863-10-15 (Old Style)
1863-10-27
dateOfDeath 1920-11-08
ethnicity Jewish
familyName Rappoport
genre drama
ethnography
folklore
givenName Shloyme
influenced Jewish drama
Yiddish theater
surface form: Yiddish theatre
influencedBy Hasidism
Russian revolutionary movement
languageOfWorkOrName Hebrew
Russian
Yiddish
movement Jewish literature
Russian literature
Yiddish literature
notableFor collecting Jewish folklore in the Pale of Settlement
writing the Yiddish play The Dybbuk
notableWork The Dybbuk
The Dybbuk
surface form: The Dybbuk; or, Between Two Worlds
occupation ethnographer
folklorist
journalist
playwright
social activist
writer
participatedIn Jewish ethnographic expeditions in the Russian Empire
placeOfBirth Chashniki
Russian Empire
Vitebsk Governorate
placeOfDeath Second Polish Republic
Warsaw
politicalAlignment socialist
pseudonym S. Ansky
religion Judaism
subjectOf Tales of the Hasidim
surface form: Hasidic tales

Jewish folklore
wroteInScript Hebrew alphabet

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The Dybbuk author S. Ansky
Vilna Troupe premieredWorkAuthor S. Ansky
this entity surface form: S. An-sky
S. Ansky pseudonym S. Ansky