S. Ansky was born in 1863 in Chashniki, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus]. He was a writer, known for Der Dybbuk (1937), The Dybbuk or: Between Two Worlds and Ha-Dybbuk B'sde Hatapuchim Hakdoshim (1997). He died on November 8, 1920 in Otwock, Poland.
