S. Ansky Quotes

Belarus, Poet
October 15, 1863 – November, 8, 1920.

Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport known by his pseudonym S. Ansky (or An-sky), was a Jewish author, playwright, researcher of Jewish folklore, polemicist, and cultural and political activist. He is best known for his play The Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds, written in 1914. In 1917, after the Russian Revolution, he was elected to the Russian Constituent Assembly as a Social-Revolutionary deputy.

Also known as Writer, Researcher, Journalist, Opinion Journalist, Playwright, Activist

When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

S. Ansky
- Work
- Literature
- Jews
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

S. Ansky
- Himself
- Jew
- Few

A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.

S. Ansky
- Live
- Soul
- Fate
Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.

S. Ansky
- People
- Work
- Myself