This important study is the first to offer a sustained look at a variety of early modern Yiddish masterworks--and their writers and readers--paying particular attention to their treatment of supernatural themes and beings.

Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Associate Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Columbia University and the director of Columbia's Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies.

"Beautifully argued . . . extremely sophisticated and convincing . . . ""In the Demon's Bedroom"" will offer literary studies a new and important means of discussing early modern texts."--Leah Garrett, Monash University --Leah Garrett