S. An-sky

Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, also known by his pen name S. 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. Born in 1863 and dying in 1920, he collected folklore among the Jewish communities of eastern Europe. In 1912 to 1914 he led the Jewish Ethnographic Expedition to the Pale of Settlement, and in 1917, after the Russian Revolution, he was elected to the Russian Constituent Assembly as a Social-Revolutionary deputy. He also wrote the words of Di Shvue, the anthem of the Jewish socialist Bund.