The Many Worlds of The Dybbuk

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Articles and Texts 5
3. List of art works 6
4. An Introduction 9
5. The Museum of the Contemporary and the Ethnographic Department 24
6. The Tawfiq Canaan Amulet Collection 34
7. Heim: An Archival Film of the Moravian Church 42
8. The Fragile Boundaries of Paradise 46
9. Toward an Updated Ethnographic Questionnaire on Israeli Time 64
10. Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Spirit Possessions and Demons, Angels and Maggidim 72
11. The Many Worlds of The Dybbuk 108
12. Dancing with the Dead: Possession and Nationalism in the Old-new Film Der Dybbuk, 1937-2017 121
13. Tisch 159
14. “The Eternal Sabbath” – Electric Sabbath Candles: The History of a Folk Tradition from a Modernist Perspective 162
15. The Wandering Jew’s Home and a Temple Everywhere 194
16. Diary for a Portable Landscape - Part I 217
17. Civic Bi-longing: Politicization of the Domestic Site in Eternal Sukkah 231
18. Diary for a Portable Landscape - Part II 268
19. About China 282
20. Activities for Children 293
21. Contributors 304