A revision of the choreography and the score was made later the same year, the ballet was renamed Dybbuk Variations and received its premiere in November. The premiere took place on, at New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with scenery by Rouben Ter-Arutunian, costumes by Patricia Zipprodt and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. For Robbins' 1980 version, see Suite of Dances (ballet).ĭybbuk is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to Leonard Bernstein's eponymous music and taking S. He has been awarded grants from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation.This article is about Robbins' 1974 ballet. Neugroschel has won three PEN translation prizes, the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and has translated more than 170 books. Joachim Neugroschel has published award-winning translations of works by Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Joseph Roth, and Hermann Hesse, among others. He grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and lives in New York.
His writings have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Nation, and The Advocate. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (for Angels in America, Part One), two Tony Awards for Best Play, two Obie Awards, and two Drama Desk Awards. Tony Kushner is one of America's most acclaimed playwrights. He is best known for his only complete dramatic work, the classic play The Dybbuk, which was written in 1914 and was first produced by the Vilna Troupe in 1920, two weeks after his death. Ansky, pseudonym for Shloyme Zanul Rappoport, (1863-1920), was a Russian-born writer, politician, and folklorist. This volume features Tony Kushner's remarkable, imaginative adaptation and an afterword by Harold Bloom, Yale professor and celebrated literary critic.Īlso included is a selection of stories, fairy tales and parables translated into English for the first time by Joachim Neugroschel, illuminating many aspects of the Jewish mystical world, including possessions, transmigration parables and miracles. Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, A Dybbuk recounts the tale of a wealthy man's daughter possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved. The dybbuk, a dead person's soul that possesses a living person, is an ancient and fascinating part of Jewish folklore in Eastern Europe. Ansky, adapted and translated by Tony Kushner and Joachim Neugroschel. HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number ofĪ Dybbuk and Other Tales of the Supernatural by S.
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