Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport (1863–1920), better known by the pseudonym S. Ansky, was a scholar who documented Jewish folklore and mystical beliefs. He is best known for authoring the Yiddish language play The Dybbuk. He was born in Vitebsk, Russia.
Ansky or S. An-Sky the pseudonym of Solomon Zainwill Rapaport, author and folklorist (1963-1920) was born in Chashnik, White Russia.
The story of Anskys play is about two young lovers secretly pledged to each other before birth by the oath of their fathers.
Anskys play, which has become an international classic, was first produced in Yiddish by the Vilna troupe in 1920 and then, in the Hebrew translation of Bialik, by the Habimah company in Moscow, Tel Aviv, and New York.
Ansky was born during the late stages of the Jewish enlightenment (Haskalah), and at the beginning of the wave of virulent anti-semitism and pogroms that spawned Zionism in Europe and Russia.
Born Shloyme-Zanvl ben Aaron Hacohen Rappoport in 1863, Ansky was reputed to be a Talmud prodigy in his hometown of Vitebsk, then part of the Russian Pale of Settlement (now in modern-day Belarus).[1] The town was the center of Habad Hasidism, and also contained formidable representatives of traditional rabbinic Judaism.
In 1917, Ansky was elected to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly as a Social-Revolutionary deputy.
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