Word: dybbuk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...style. Israeli girls, who run to the buxom bucolic type, stride the streets in slacks or shorts. Many have gone into the CHEN, Israeli version of the WAC. The young people turn their backs on sentimental, nostalgic, masochistic traditional Jewish art. Such plays as the great Yiddish drama, The Dybbuk, draw an almost unanimous "it stinks" from the sabras. Their strong, bronzed young hands have no tendency to rend their open-necked sport shirts in grief...
Opening with S. Ansky's well-known Dybbuk,* the Habimah confirmed the impression they made on Broadway in 1925: that they are a distinguished acting company. At its best, their stylized production possesses really notable style...