Word: dybbuk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Habimah, the National Theater of Israel, will give a special student performance of "The Dybbuk" Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m. Tickets for the play, which will be presented in Hebrew with simultaneous English translation, are available today and tomorrow...
...occult Cabalistic thought of the late-medieval European Jews, who saw nature as a deceptive cloak thrown over man's divine essence. Aronson's new subjects included the golem, or automaton, brought to life by magic and capable of either good or evil. Another was the dybbuk, a wicked spirit that can only be exorcised (usually through the small toe) by a wonder-working rabbi...
...equally ambitious, far more controversial ballet with a supernatural theme was stirring up critics in Europe last week. The work: Dybbuk, by Choreographer Herbert Ross. Staged by Ballets of Two Worlds, the company recently formed by Ross and his wife, Ballerina Nora Kaye, Dybbuk proved to be a three-act excursion into cabalistic legend. Long intriguing to dramatists,* the Dybbuk legend in the Ross ballet version was set to a sparkling score by Vienna-born Composer Robert Starer. Ballerina Kaye was cast in the role of the heroine, Leah, whose body is possessed by a dybbuk, or demon...
...Tenth Man. The girl is obviously psychotic, but Playwright Paddy Chayefsky-in a strikingly original play set in a Long Island synagogue-suggests that she might be possessed by a dybbuk, an evil spirit that has all but vanished from currency in the age of Freud...
...Tenth Man. The girl is obviously psychotic, but Playwright Paddy Chayevsky-in a strikingly original play set in a Long Island synagogue-suggests that she might be possessed by a dybbuk, an evil spirit that has all but vanished from currency in the age of Freud...