Selected Bibliography
of Works in English

Works by An-sky

“I Enlighten a Shtetl,” in The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe. Edited by Lucy S. Dawidowicz. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967, 305–11.

The Dybbuk and Other Writings. Edited by David G. Roskies. New York: Schocken Books, 1992.

The Dybbuk and Other Tales of the Supernatural. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Adapted by Tony Kushner. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1997.

The Dybbuk and the Yiddish Imagination: A Haunted Reader. Edited and translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000.

The Enemy at His Pleasure: A Journey through the Jewish Pale of Settlement during World War I. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2001.

Works about An-sky

Frankel, Jonathan. Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862–1917. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981, 260–87.

Horowitz, Brian. Empire Jews: Jewish Nationalism and Acculturation in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Russia. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2009.

Krutikov, Mikhail. Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905–14. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000, 73–83.

Murav, Harriet. Identity Theft: The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, 32–58.

Roskies, David. “The Maskil as Folk Hero.” Prooftexts 10 (1990): 219–35.

Roskies, David. “S. Ansky and the Paradigm of Return.” In The Uses of Tradition: Jewish Continuity in the Modern Era, edited by Jack Wertheimer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992, 243–60.

Safran, Gabriella. Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk’s Creator, S. An-sky. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Safran, Gabriella, and Steven J. Zipperstein, eds. The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006.