In this essay, the author examines several innovative explorations and imaginative variations on the theme of spirit possession in contemporary Jewish women's fiction. After a brief overview of the dybbuk possession phenomenon and S. An-sky's well-known play The Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds, the author does a comparative analysis presenting the motif of dybbuk and spirit possession in E. M. Broner's A Weave of Women, Francine Prose's Hungry Hearts, Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound by Judith Katz, The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford, The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham, and The Road to Fez by Ruth Knafo Setton. Legutko finds women writers place the emphasis on the possessed person and not only on the dybbuk, while the exorcist—the significant focus of the male narratives—is relegated to a secondary role. Feminist dybbuk stories address issues such as arranged marriage, sexual difference, domestic violence, or mother-daughter relationships, while the religious aspects of possession are no longer of primary concern. Finally, Jewish women writers make a great use of humor in the dybbuk narratives.
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Pub Date : 2010-04-01DOI: 10.2979/BRI.2010.15.1.116
J. Burd
{"title":"The Mother/Child PapersandThe Book of Seventyby Alicia Ostriker","authors":"J. Burd","doi":"10.2979/BRI.2010.15.1.116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/BRI.2010.15.1.116","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108822,"journal":{"name":"Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125300500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-04-01DOI: 10.2979/BRI.2010.15.1.33
S. Yehuda
{"title":"Rasa: A Modern Fairy Tale in Two Acts","authors":"S. Yehuda","doi":"10.2979/BRI.2010.15.1.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/BRI.2010.15.1.33","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108822,"journal":{"name":"Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134432424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-04-01DOI: 10.2979/BRI.2010.15.1.90
B. Fisher
{"title":"Beth Escapes to Baghdad: An Informal Theater Piece about Women's Agency, War and Peace Activism","authors":"B. Fisher","doi":"10.2979/BRI.2010.15.1.90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/BRI.2010.15.1.90","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108822,"journal":{"name":"Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121964543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-04-01DOI: 10.2979/BRI.2010.15.1.27
S. Yehuda
In this essay, the author traces the personal background of her research on the Jewish golem legends that began with her PhD dissertation, The Golem as Metaphor for Jewish Women Writers. Drawing on diverse writers including Andre Brink, Eunice Lipton, Temple Grandin, Chava Rosenfarb and Cynthia Ozick, Yehuda explores the repercussions in her own life of the Talmudic statement, "A woman [before marriage or childbirth] is a golem."
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Pub Date : 2010-04-01DOI: 10.2979/bri.2010.15.1.80
Sarah Antine
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