8: Play preview video, Habima's production of The Dybbuk, 2008, Hebrew with subtitles.

8: Play preview video, Habima's production of The Dybbuk, 2008, Hebrew with subtitles.

Habima is the national theater of Israel, founded in Russia in 1912. The Dybbuk, the key work of the company's repertoire, was first performed by Habima in its Hebrew-language premiere in 1922 (with the translation completed by Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Israel's national poet). Here it is seen in a much more recent puppet adaptation.

S. Ansky, Hadibuk (The Dybbuk), trans. Hayyim Nahman Bialik, directed by Shmuel Shohat (Jerusalem: Habimah, 2014), www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeMh7SU166g&list=PL645FC34E2F36AC42.