TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elior,Rachel
TI  - Dybbuks and Jewish women: in social history, mysticism and folklore 
SN  - 9789655240092
AV  - BM729.D92 E45 2008eb
U1  - 296.3/16 23/eng/20231017
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Jerusalem, New York
PB  - Urim
KW  - Dybbuk
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - History
KW  - Mysticism
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Jews
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Dibbouk
KW  - Juives
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Mysticisme
KW  - Judaïsme
KW  - Juifs
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Theology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Kabbalah & Mysticism
KW  - fast
KW  - Jüdin
KW  - gnd
KW  - Dibbuk
KW  - idszbz
N1  - Originally published in Hebrew in Derekh ha-ruaḥ (Jerusalem : Van Leer Institute, 2005) and in Kiṿunim ḥadashim 17 (2007); Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - How and why a person comes to be possessed by a dybbukthe possession of a living body by the soul of a deceased personand 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 individualsoften womenwho 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 aspects of dybbuk possession from historical and phenomenological perspectives, with particular attention to the gender significance of the subject
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