In desperation, Hannan decides to study the mystical arts of the Kabbala, in the hopes of finding a way to win back Leah'le, whom he feels is his predestined bride. Sender opposes a marriage between the two, as he prefers a rich suitor for his daughter. Ansky, who travelled between Jewish shtetls in Russia and the Ukraine, documenting folk beliefs and stories of the Hassidic Jews.Īct 1: Hannan, a brilliant talmudic scholar, falls in love with Leah'le, the daughter of Sender, a rich merchant. The play was based on years of research by S. The Dybbuk, is considered a seminal play in the history of Jewish theater, and played an important role in the development of Yiddish theatre and theatre in Israel. Ansky, relating the story of a young bride possessed by a dybbuk - a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person - on the eve of her wedding. The Dybbuk (or Between Two Worlds) is a 1914 play by S.
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