Between Worlds Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism J. H. Chajes "An exciting, persuasive, and well-written study and another key addition to a subject central to early modern religions."--Jewish Quarterly Review "Chajes"s excellent new book . . . succeeds in demystifying the subject of Jewish spirit (i.e., "dybbuk") possession by placing it within a broader cross-cultural and historical context, a s sophisticated methodological approach he calls a "historical anthropology of spirit possession." . . . His work is both a history and a phenomenology of Jewish spirit possession during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."--Choice "This is a major contribution, not only to early modern Jewish studies but to the subject of spirit possession broadly conceived in the Christian world."--Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania 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...