City of the dead

Chajes, J. H. (Jeffrey Howard)
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Title City of the dead : spirit possession in sixteenth-century Safed.
Original Library/publisher Spirit Possession in Judaism
Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present. Ed. by Matt Goldish. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003
Host Item Spirit Possession in Judaism (2003) 124-158, 367-383 w 990022994760205171
Description With appendix: texts (pp. 367-383).
Language English
National Library system number 990004060460705171
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