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Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism
Jeffrey Howard Chajes
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Paperback. Adopting a comparative historical approach, J. H. Chajes uncovers a strain of Jewish belief to which scant attention has been paid. Between Worlds provides fascinating descriptions of cases of possession as well as analysis of the magical techniques deployed by rabbinic exorcists to expel the ghostly intruders. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRJ; HRLK; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 429.
After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as The Age of the Demoniac, accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near East but spreading rapidly westward, spirit possession, both benevolent and malevolent, emerged as perhaps the most characteristic form of religiosity in early modern Jewish society. Adopting a comparative historical approach, J. H. Chajes uncovers this strain of Jewish belief to which scant attention has been ... Read more
After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as The Age of the Demoniac, accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near East but spreading rapidly westward, spirit possession, both benevolent and malevolent, emerged as perhaps the most characteristic form of religiosity in early modern Jewish society. Adopting a comparative historical approach, J. H. Chajes uncovers this strain of Jewish belief to which scant attention has been ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Jewish Culture & Contexts
Condition
New
Weight
428g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812221701
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V9780812221701
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About Jeffrey Howard Chajes
J. H. Chajes teaches Jewish history at the University of Haifa.
Reviews for Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism
An exciting, persuasive, and well-written study and another key addition to a subject central to early modern religions. -Jewish Quarterly Review Chajes's excellent new book . . . succeeds in demystifying the subject of Jewish spirit (i.e., dybbuk ) possession by placing it within a broader cross-cultural and historical context, a s sophisticated methodological approach he calls a ... Read more