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Jewish Magic and Superstition
Joshua Trachtenberg's 1939 study of folk religion among medieval Ashkenazi Jews, drawing on rabbinic responsa, ethical literature and magical manuscripts. It surveys beliefs about demons and spirits, the use of divine and angelic names, amulets, dreams, divination, medicine and protective customs. Still frequently cited, it offers a grounded picture of everyday religious practice alongside formal Kabbalah and is valuable for readers studying Jewish magic and its place in wider European culture.
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- The Sword of Moses (Harba de-Moshe)Late antiquity or early Middle Ages; Gaster's manuscript 13th–14th century
- Sefer Shimmush Tehillim (Magical Use of the Psalms)Medieval (core material probably early medieval); German translation 18th century
- Sepher Raziel (Liber Salomonis)Latin compiled 13th century; English versions 16th century (one dated 1564)
- Sefer ha-Levanah (Book of the Moon)Medieval text; manuscript 16th century; edited by A. W. Greenup, 1912
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