1915 Diary of S. An-sky

The WWI diary of the Russian Jewish activist and author of The Dybbuk presents “an unforgettable portrait of life, culture, and destruction” (Eugene Avrutin, author of Jews and the Imperial State ). By the outbreak of World War I, S. An-sky was a well-known writer, a longtime revolutionary, and an ethnographer who pioneered the collection of Jewish folklore in Russia's Pale of Settlement. In 1915, An-sky took on the assignment of providing aid and relief to Jewish civilians trapped under Russian