‘The Dybbuk’: legend of a lost world 

In 1914 An-Sky wrote The Dybbuk: first in Russian, then he translated it into Yiddish. The play tells the story of the possession of a young woman by the malicious spirit – known as a dybbuk

 in Jewish folklore – of her dead beloved. The Dybbuk had its world premiere in Yiddish, performed by the Vilna Troupe in Warsaw in 1920. On 1 September 1921, the play had its American

premiere in New York. A Hebrew version was prepared by Bialik and staged in Moscow at the famous Habima Theater in 1922. It was later filmed in Yiddish in 1937, directed by Michał Waszyński,

 and the exhibition in Paris includes some extraordinary clips from the film, images of a bygone world destroyed by the Holocaust just a few years later.

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