The Dybbuk (The Play of the Week)

"The Dybbuk"
The Play of the Week episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 2
Directed bySidney Lumet
Written bySholom Ansky (play)
Joseph Liss (writer)
Featured musicJohn Green
Original air dateOctober 3, 1960 (1960-10-03)
Running time104 minutes
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"The Dybbuk" is a 1960 television production of the Russian play The Dybbuk by Sholom Ansky,[1] which was authored between 1913 and 1916 and is considered a Yiddish classic,[2] with Cambridge University Press calling it "probably the most performed of any Yiddish play".[3] It was directed by Sidney Lumet[4] for The Play of the Week[5] from an adaptation into English by Joseph Liss. The program, starring Carol Lawrence (who had just become a star after playing Maria in the original Broadway production of West Side Story), aired on October 3, 1960.[6]

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  2. ^ Grimes, William (December 23, 1991). "Buried Themes: Psychoanalyzing Movies (Published 1991)". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Wirth-Nesher, Hana, ed. (December 19, 2015). Drama. Cambridge University Press. p. 223. ISBN 9781107261341.
  4. ^ https://www.yivo.org/cimages/8582_yedies.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0USkfJeczQNdqOjiCDPs4r [dead link]
  5. ^ Konigsberg, Ira (1997). ""The Only 'I' in the World": Religion, Psychoanalysis, and "The Dybbuk"". Cinema Journal. 36 (4): 22–42. doi:10.2307/1225611. JSTOR 1225611 – via JSTOR.
  6. ^ Hoberman, J., The Dybbuk. Port Washington, NY: Entertainment One U.S. LP, 2011.