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Dybbuks were typically male spirits who possessed women, often on the eve of their weddings, says Rachel Elior, professor of Jewish philosophy at Hebrew University and author of Dybbuks and Jewish Women in Social History, Mysticism and Folklore.

"The Possession" was shot under the working title "Dybbuk Box" with a clear mission to expand that spirit's pop-culture status (dybbuks previously factored into 2009's forgettable "The Unborn" and a more enduring Yiddish stage play, "The Dybbuk").

According to Louis Schmier who edited his reminiscences, Pearlman initially viewed the first Black people he had ever seen as dybbuks, but quickly overcame his flight and saw parallels between the plight of persecuted Jews and that of Black freedmen who deserved to be treated "like menschen." Though his older cousin Sam advised against too much familiarity with his Black customers, Pearlman broke a racial taboo by accepting an invitation to sleep under the roof of a Black family who taught him his first words of English.

In her 'Of Ghosts and Dybbuks: the Haunting of the Israeli Imagination', Yehudit Kirstein Keshet continues to explore the relations between grips of a past and a troubled future.

Chajes, Between Worlds: Dybbuks,.Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), pp.

Public hearing on Dybbuks Way; amending the Rural Comprehensive Plan to redesignate land from "forest" to "marginal land." 682-4203.

They had followed him here as if they were dybbuks and gilguls.

He was also believed to have been involved in the removal of 20 dybbuks, or lost souls that strayed into the hapless bodies of living people to torment them.

Not only his dybbuks and demons but the people themselves belonged not simply to another continent but to another cosmos, a distant century.