Tag Archives: Jewish monsters

FORWARD on “The secret Jewish history of Frankenstein”

September 9th, 2021 | Posted in Frankenstein, Golem, Jewish monsters

FORWARD, a publication devoted to discussion of interest to Jewish Americans, includes an interesting story: “Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on this day, Aug. 30, in 1797 in London. Shelley is best known as the author of the Gothic novel “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” and as the wife of the Romantic poet Percy […]

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“The Vigil” presents Jewish take on the demonic

February 16th, 2021 | Posted in horror, Jewish monsters

I’m currently reading Steve Wiggins’ book Nightmares with the Bible, which will be the focus on a review I write and a future podcast with Steve, but it has heightened my sense of the demonic in cinema and religion of late. Today I came across The Vigil in my news feed, which promises to be […]

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Toronto Jewish Film Festival and Jewish Horror

May 1st, 2014 | Posted in horror, Jewish monsters, Judaism, monsters, religion

Carl Rosenberg, a reader of this blog, made me aware of an interesting facet of the 22nd Toronto Jewish Film Festival. It features a section on horror titled “The Search for a Jewish Horror Film: Golems, Dybbuks and Other Movie Monsters.” This is described as follows and features the following films: With a series of […]

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Lilith in Folklore and the Bible

March 26th, 2014 | Posted in folklore, Jewish monsters, Judaism, monsters, myths

A brief but interesting item in this post. In keeping up with ongoing elements and developments in biblical studies I came across a blog I hadn’t read before. It included a post titled “Lilith in the Bible and Jewish Folklore.” Readers may have heard of Lilith from Jewish folklore with the idea that she was […]

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Jewish Monstrosity

April 19th, 2010 | Posted in folklore, Jewish monsters, Judaism, monsters, myths

For those who may have come to this post via a search engine or link on a website or blog expecting to find something anti-Semitic you’ll be disappointed. Instead, I want to draw the reader’s attention to the recent discussion of various monsters from Jewish folklore, religion, and myth. In the West we tend to […]

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