S. Ansky
Belarusian Jewish author, playwright, scholar, and activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport (1863 – November 8, 1920), known by his pseudonym S. Ansky (or An-sky), was a Jewish author, playwright, researcher of Jewish folklore, polemicist, and cultural and political activist. He is best known for his play The Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds, written in 1914, and for Di Shvue, the anthem of the Jewish socialist Bund.
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Native name | ש. אַנ-סקי |
Born | Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport (1863-10-27)October 27, 1863 Chashniki, Russian Empire |
Died | November 8, 1920(1920-11-08) (aged 57) Warsaw or Otwock, Poland |
Pen name | S. Ansky |
Occupation | Writer, journalist, ethnographer |
Language | Yiddish, Russian |
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In 1917, after the Russian Revolution, he was elected to the Russian Constituent Assembly as a Social-Revolutionary deputy.[1]