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

In this “urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history” (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a past that still haunts h

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