The Exorcist meets The Dybbuk in The Unborn
| 10:20 AM Jan 9, 2009
If The Unborn isn’t Hollywood’s first Jewish horror movie, it’s got to be the first one in which an exorcism is preceded by the blowing of a shofar.
The film, which opens today, was written and directed by David S. Goyer, who wrote Batman Begins and the Blade trilogy. It follows Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman), ...
Uncovering the legend of the dybbuk
| 1:40 PM Sep 18, 2008
Dybbuks—disembodied spirits that inhabit the bodies of the living—have long been a part of Jewish history and myth. Like golems, these fantastical, folkloric creatures may seem foreign to contemporary Judaism, but their stories still capture our imaginations.
In the new book Dybbuks and Jewish Women in Social History, Mysticism, and Folklore, Rachel Elior examines how ...
A century ago, S. Ansky breathed new life into a shtetl folktale. His play, The Dybbuk, still captures creative minds.
| 10:24 PM May 14, 2007
Scene from The Dybbuk, 1937.
Alok Tewari (as the Rabbi) and Paula McGonagle (as Leah) in Betrothed, 2007.
In the early 1900’s, Russian ethnographer S. Ansky ventured into shtetl territory, armed with a wax cylinder recording device and camera, to document a fading, if still vibrant, world. There he discovered the tale of the dybbuk, a wandering ...
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