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The Dybbuk Century
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Debra Caplan
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-10-11 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman by a dislocated spirit, opened in Warsa
Yiddish Empire
Language: en
Pages: 343
Authors: Debra Caplan
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-02 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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Relates the untold story of a traveling Yiddish theater company and traces their far- reaching influence
Jewish Theatre
Language: en
Pages: 325
Authors: Edna Nahshon
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: BRILL

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While a frequently used term, Jewish Theatre has become a contested concept that defies precise definition. Is it theatre by Jews? For Jews? About Jews? Though
Dybbuks and Jewish Women in Social History, Mysticism and Folklore
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: Rachel Elior
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-01 - Publisher: Urim Publications

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How and why a person comes to be possessed by a dybbuk—the possession of a living body by the soul of a deceased person—and what consequences ensue from suc
Between Worlds
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: J. H. Chajes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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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