Dybbuks and Jewish Women in Social History, Mysticism and Folklore.

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 such possession, form the subject of this book. Though possession by a dybbuk has traditionally been understood as punishment for a terrible sin, i...

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Main Author: Elior, Rachel
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Language:English
Published: Chicago : Urim Publications, 2008.
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505 0 |a Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Note on Translations; I. "Like Sophia and Marcelle and Lizzie"; II. Speaking Voices, Silencing Worlds, Silenced Voices; a. Introduction; b. The Societal Background for the Phenomenon of the Dybbuk in the Traditional World of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries; c. Contexts for the Dybbuk; d. The Dybbuk in the Public Arena; e. The Dybbuk and Witchcraft; f. Spirits in the Exorcism Ceremony; g. Kabbalistic Background; h. Exorcism and Unification: Between Expulsion of the Dybbuk and the Wedding Ceremony. 
505 8 |a I. Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk) -- S. An-skyIndex; About the Author. 
520 |a 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 such possession, form the subject of this book. Though possession by a dybbuk has traditionally been understood as punishment for a terrible sin, it can also be seen as a mechanism used by desperate individuals-often women-who had no other means of escape from the demands and expectations of an all-encompassing patriarchal social order. Dybbuks and Jewish Women examines these and other as. 
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