Magic and the Modern Period

 

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Books

 

Firestone, Melvin M., Magical Curing in the Seattle Sephardic Community (M.A. Thesis, University of Washington, 1959)

 

Leschnitzer, Adolf, The Magic Background of Modern Anti-Semitism: an Analysis of the German-Jewish Relationship (New York: International Universities Press, 1956)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Bos, Gerrit, "Jewish Traditions on Strengthening Memory and Leone Modena's Evaluation," Jewish Studies Quarterly 2/1 (1995), 39-58.

 

Bos, Gerrit, "Moshe Mizrachi on Popular Science in 17th Century Palestine-Syria," Jewish Studies Quarterly 3/3 (1996), 250-279..

 

Bazak, B., "Rabbi Kook as an Exorcist," Shana be-Shana (1976), 387-391 [Hebrew]

 

Chajes, J.H., “Judgements Sweetened: Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern Jewish History,” Journal of Early Modern History 1:2 (1997), pp. 124-169

 

Etkes, E., “The Role of Magic and the Ba’alei-Shem in Ashkenazic Society in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries,” Zion 60 (1995), 69-104

 

Gertel, Elliot, “White Magic Religion,” Jewish Spectator Fall (1998), 10-11

 

Grozinger, Karl Erich, "Judische Wunderrabiner: R. Nathan Adler und sein Kreis," in Julius Carlebach (ed.) Das Aschkenasische Rabbinat (Berlin: Metropol, 1995), pp. 151-163

 

Kilcher, Andreas B., "Das Magische Gesetz der hebraischen Sprache, Drostes  'Judenbuch' und der spatromantische biskurseder die judische magie," Zeitschrift fur deutsche Philologie 118:2 (1999), 234-265

 

Verman. Mark, "Signor Tarquillo's Magic Notebook," in Joseph Dan and Klaus Herman (eds.) Studies in Jewish Manuscripts (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1999), 231-237

 

Zlotchew, Clark M., “Magic Realism and the Twentieth Century Inquisition,” Jewish Affairs 53:1 (1998), 25-29