Under the influence of the Russian narodnik movement, Ansky became interested in ethnography, as well as socialism, and became a political activist. Between 1911 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he headed ethnographic expeditions to various Jewish towns of Volhynia and Podolia, composing a detailed ethnographic questionnaire of more than 2000 questions.
Nathaniel Deutsch, The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement. Harvard University Press, 2011.
Nathaniel Deutsch, The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement. Harvard University Press, 2011.
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