Proceedings of a conference held at Stanford University, March 17-19, 2001.
Includes translation of An-ski's Dibeḳ into English.
Translated from the Russian.
Introduction : An-sky and the guises of modern Jewish culture / Steven J. Zipperstein
An-sky, Sholem Aleichem, and the master narrative of Russian Jewry / David G. Roskies
Paradigmatic times : An-sky's two worlds / Sylvie Anne Goldberg
An-sky in 1892 : the Jew and the Petersburg myth / Gabriella Safran
"We are too late" : An-sky and the paradigm of no return / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Spiritual and physical strength in An-sky's literary imagination / Brian Horowitz
The Russian Jew as a modern hero : identity construction in An-sky's writings / Mikhail Krutikov
"Youth in revolt" : An-sky's In shtrom and the instant fictionalization of 1905 / Jonathan Frankel
Inscribing An-sky's Dybbuk in Russian and Jewish letters / Seth L. Wolitz
The musical strands of An-sky's texts and contexts / Izaly Zemtsovsky
"Fardibekt!" : An-sky's Polish legacy / Michael C. Steinlauf
An-sky, Evgeny Vakhtangov, and the Dybbuk / Vladislav Ivanov ; translated by Anne Eakin Moss
An-sky and the ethnography of Jewish women / Nathaniel Deutsch
"An academy where folklore will be studied" : An-sky and the Jewish Museum / Benjamin Lukin
Ethnic loyalty and international modernism : the An-sky expeditions and the Russian avant-garde / John E. Bowlt
An-sky, the Vilna Jewish Historic-Ethnographic Society, and the shaping of modern Jewish culture / Cecile E. Kuznitz
The father of Jewish ethnography? / Jack Kugelmass
Appendix : The dybbuk, S. An-sky, Between two worlds (The dybbuk) : censored variant / introduction by Vladislav Ivanov
Translators' note / Craig Cravens with Gabriella Safran
Between two worlds (The dybbuk) : a Jewish dramatic legend in four acts with prologue and epilogue / by S. An-sky ; edited by Vladislav Ivanov; translated by Craig Cravens.
The worlds of S. An-sky : a Russian Jewish intellectual at the turn of the century. ISBN 080475344X. Published by Stanford University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.