Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Map viii
4. Preface and Acknowledgments x
5. Timeline: Semyon Akimovich An-sky/Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport xv
6. Key Archival Sources xxx
7. Key Printed Sources xxxi
8. Introduction: An -sky and the Guises of Modern Jewish Culture 1
9. 1. An-sky, Sholem Aleichem, and the Master Narrative of Russian Jewry 31
10. 2. Paradigmatic Times: An-sky's Two Worlds 44
11. 3. An-sky in 1892: The Jew and the Petersburg Myth 53
12. 4. "We Are Too Late": An-sky and the Paradigm of No Return 83
13. 5. Spiritual and Physical Strength in An-sky's Literary Imagination 103
14. 6. The Russian Jew as a Modern Hero: Identity Construction in An-sky's Writings 119
15. 7. "Youth in Revolt": An-sky's In shtrom and the Instant Fictionalization of 1905 137
16. 8. Inscribing An-sky's Dybbuk in Russian and Jewish Letters 164
17. 9. The Musical Strands of An-sky's Texts and Contexts 203
18. 10. "Fardibekt!": An-sky's Polish Legacy 232
19. 11. An-sky, Evgeny Vakhtangov, and The Dybbuk 252
20. 12. An-sky and the Ethnography of Jewish Women 266
21. I3. "An Academy Where Folklore Will be Studied": An-sky and the Jewish Museum 281
22. 14. Ethnic Loyalty and International Modernism: The An-sky Expeditions and the Russian Avant-Garde 307
23. 15. An-sky's Legacy: the Vilna Historic-Ethnographic Society and the Shaping of Modern Jewish Culture 320
24. 16. The Father of Jewish Ethnography? 346
25. Appendix S. An-sky, Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk): Censored Variant 361
26. Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk): A Jewish 374
27. Notes 437
28. Contributors 509
29. Index 513