Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism by J. H. Chajes
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 Age of the Demoniac,” accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near East but spreading rapidly westward, spirit possession, both benevolent and malevolent, emerged as perhaps the…
Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism by J. H. Chajes
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