List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface: In the Synagogue
Introduction
1. The Messiah's Mother Lamentation: The Sonic Imagination of The Eternal Jew
2. The Rise and Fall: The Return of The Dybbuk and the Making of the Acoustic Community
3. "Who Will Save Us?" Hebrew Specters and the Performativity of Cultural Rupture in The Golem
4. Yaakov and Rachel: The Experience of Source
Epilogue: Against Ephemerality
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Ruthie Abeliovich is Lecturer in the Theatre Department at Haifa University, Israel.