The Dybbuk by S. Ansky; Unabridged MP3 Audio Book; Narrator Shane Salk

Audie Award-winner

In the folklore of Eastern European Jewry, a dybbuk is a wandering soul that comes to rest in the body of a living person. In this case, the dybbuk is an impoverished student that possesses a young bride on her wedding day. She is taken to a great Chassidic rabbi for exorcism. But before he can expel the spirit, the sage must discover who the dybbuk was in life, why he has possessed the maiden, and most importantly, how to balance the scales of cosmic justice.

Part folk tale, part love story, and part allegory, The Dybbuk recreates the atmosphere of a bygone era, with all its rich humor, music, folkways, magic, and humanity.

This Audie Award-winning production of the most revered drama in the Yiddish repertoire is the only sound recording of the play in the English language.

S. Ansky, Shloyme-Zanvel Rappaport (1863-1920), who wrote under the name Semyon Akimovich Ansky, was born in Belarus to a traditional, Yiddish-speaking Jewish family. He became a populist activist, ethnographer, and author of fiction, poetry, and drama in Yiddish and Russian. From 1911 to 1914, he traveled through villages as head of a Jewish ethnographic expedition. A story he heard during his researches became the foundation for his famous play, The Dybbuk.

Shane Salk was born in Seattle, Washington, and relocated to Los Angeles in 2008 after graduating from Chapman University with a BFA in theater performance. He has worked in film and television and on stage since youth. His work has been featured in such film festivals as the Long Beach Short Festival and the New England Film Festival. Along with producing, his acting has earned him a number of awards, including two for excellence in acting from the Kennedy Center. He also performs stand-up, sketch, and improv comedy around Los Angles and throughout the United States. He has extensive knowledge of old-time radio, both dramatic and comedic, which has been a passion of his since first hearing William Conrad as Matt Dillon in Gun Smoke.