Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by S. Ansky

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, known by his pseudonym S. Ansky, 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.

Russian - Author | 1863 - 1920

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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

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

S. Ansky

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

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

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by S. Ansky

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