Between Worlds Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism J. H. Chajes "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 'historical anthropology of spirit possession.' . . . His work is both a history and a phenomenology of Jewish spirit possession...
Between Worlds Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism J. H. Chajes "An exciting, persuasive, and well-written study and another key addition to ...