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Between Worlds
Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism
Chajes studies cases of spirit possession and exorcism in early modern Jewish communities, from sixteenth-century Safed to Italy and Eastern Europe. He links the dybbuk phenomenon to Lurianic ideas about transmigration of souls and to wider European possession culture. Rigorous yet engaging, this Penn study suits readers interested in practical Kabbalah, Jewish folk belief and the history of the supernatural.






