Authors: Tony Kushner, Tony Kushner (Translator), Joachim Neugroschel
ISBN-13: 9781559361378, ISBN-10: 1559361379
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Date Published: December 1997
Edition: 1 ED
Tony Kushner's plays include A Bright Room Called Day and Slavs!; as well as adaptations of Corneille's The Illusion, Ansky's The Dybbuk, Brecht's The Good Person of Szecguan and Goethe's Stella. Current projects include: Henry Box Brown or The Mirror of Slavery; and two musical plays: St. Cecilia or The Power of Music and Caroline or Change. His collaboration with Maurice Sendak on an American version of the children's opera, Brundibar, appeared in book form Fall 2003. Kushner grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and he lives in New York.
The first part of the book features Tony Kushner's adaptation of The Dybbuk by S. Ansky from Joachim Neugroschel's translation, with an afterword by Harold Bloom. Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, The Dybuuk recounts the tale of a wealthy man's daughter who is possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved. Also included in this volume is a selection of stories translated into English for the first time by Joachim Neugroschel, illuminating different aspects of the Jewish mystical world, including possessions, transmigration, fairy tales, parables and miracles.
A Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds | 1 | |
Afterword | 109 | |
The Dybbuk Melody | 117 | |
A Human Life | 120 | |
The Creation Melody | 125 | |
The Ten Signs of the Messiah | 127 | |
The Shepherd's Melody | 144 | |
Gehenna | 146 | |
The Gallows Melody | 158 | |
God on Trial | 160 | |
Keeping Watch | 169 | |
The Girls' Melody | 183 | |
Joy | 185 | |
The Egyptian Passover | 190 | |
The Rabbi's Melody or A Melody That Unlocks the Secrets of the Torah | 196 |