Word: dybbuk
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Omer Bartov, a professor at Brown University and a scholar of Yiddish culture, spoke at Hillel yesterday afternoon after the matinee performance of The Dybbuk, a play showing at the Loeb Experimental Theater this week...
...play is about five Jews who re-enact a Yiddish play, “Dybbuk,” to cope with the suffering in a German ghetto during the Holocaust...
...Dybbuk is the “ultimate Jewish play and the most popular,” Bartov said, “very Jewish and completely universal...
...infecting memory with its persistence and perverting identity to the point of total self-denial. Yet it can also serve to preserve one’s past and sense of self, and transform itself into a means of affirmation. Julia Pascal’s play-within-a-play, The Dybbuk, explores this perpetual haunting through the lens of modern Jewish identity, in a stark, powerful and moving production, directed in the Loeb Experimental Theater by Graham A. Sack...
...side panels of the cage lift as the five characters begin to reenact scenes from Solomon Anski’s classic the Dybbuk, inspired by the traditional story of a young woman whose dead lover comes back to possess her. The wonderment of the actors—as their story-telling literally and metaphorically lifts their prison—is a moving testament to the elegance and inventiveness...