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The WWI diary of the Russian Jewish activist and author of The Dybbuk presents “an unforgettable portrait of life, culture, and destruction” (Eugene Avrutin

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation -- INTRODUCTION -- S. An-sky's 1915 Diary -- 1 WINTER 1915: Galicia -- 2 FALL 1915: Petrograd -- Not

"In daily accounts, Ansky details his struggles: to raise funds; to lobby and bribe at the czar's court; and to procure and transport food, medicine, and money

Can trauma be inherited? In this luminous memoir of identity, exile, ancestry, and reckoning, an American writer returns to Russia to face a family history that

Over 170 amazing photographs of Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement, from S. An-sky's ethnographic expeditions