Wayward Children: Jewish Monsters, Magic, and the Stories We Tell
According to Jewish tradition, the world around us is filled with demons, ghosts, giants and angels, and creatures of all types. But Judaism today tends to downplay and rationalize them away, to the point where they’re just forgotten dusty metaphors. But for millenia, Jews have lived with these creatures and have had practical means for coping with them.
Join Jack Zaientz a scholar of all things Jewish folklore and mythology and John Baltisberger, the award-winning author of Jewish horror and fantasy as they explore the topics of mythic Judaism and discuss it's survival and use in modern day culture both pop and otherwise.
Wayward Children: Jewish Monsters, Magic, and the Stories We Tell
Monster Hunting Kits
Welcome to our first episode! Jack and John discuss monster hunting kits. Not just what they might contain but the sorts of people who might carry them about! We discuss Baal Shems, Ibburim, Dybbukim, Black Weddings, Sheydim and so, so much more!
This episode's book recommendations:
- Jewish Magic and Superstition -A Study in Folk Religion by Joshua Trachtenberg
- Women's Divination in Biblical Literature by Esther J. Hamori
- Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism ny Gershon Winkler
- and the website, Pulling at Threads
We also mentioned two Jewish fiction book up for preorder:
- Charwood by Josh Schlossberg
- No Guilt of Bloodshed by John Baltisberger
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- Intro and outro music ‘Skin and Bones’ composed by Yoshie Fruchter and performed by Pitom, on Tzadik records
