Nathaniel Deutsch is Professor of Literature and History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Guardians of the Gate: Angelic Vice Regency in Late Antiquity (1999) and The Gnostic Imagination: Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and Merkabah Mysticism (1995), and the coeditor with Y. Chireau, of Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism (2000).

• Foreword by Janusz Bardach Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Ansky Visits Ludmir 1. A Dybbuk Trilogy, or How the Maiden of Ludmir Became a Literary Figure 2. Writing the Maiden 3. Afterlives: Remembering the Maiden 4. The Curse, the Cossacks, and the Messiah: Ludmir Before the Maiden 5. Birth and Childhood 6. Love and Death [Illustration section] 7. The Maiden Possessed 8. False Male and Woman Rebbe? 9. The Witch-hunt in Ludmir 10. The Wedding and Its Aftermath 11. In the Holy Land Conclusion: Tracing the Maiden Afterword: Journey to Ludmir Notes Bibliography Index

Nathaniel Deutsch is Professor of Literature and History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Guardians of the Gate: Angelic Vice Regency in Late Antiquity (1999) and The Gnostic Imagination: Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and Merkabah Mysticism (1995), and the coeditor with Y. Chireau, of Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism (2000).

• Foreword by Janusz Bardach Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Ansky Visits Ludmir 1. A Dybbuk Trilogy, or How the Maiden of Ludmir Became a Literary Figure 2. Writing the Maiden 3. Afterlives: Remembering the Maiden 4. The Curse, the Cossacks, and the Messiah: Ludmir Before the Maiden 5. Birth and Childhood 6. Love and Death [Illustration section] 7. The Maiden Possessed 8. False Male and Woman Rebbe? 9. The Witch-hunt in Ludmir 10. The Wedding and Its Aftermath 11. In the Holy Land Conclusion: Tracing the Maiden Afterword: Journey to Ludmir Notes Bibliography Index

Nathaniel Deutsch is Professor of Literature and History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Guardians of the Gate: Angelic Vice Regency in Late Antiquity (1999) and The Gnostic Imagination: Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and Merkabah Mysticism (1995), and the coeditor with Y. Chireau, of Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism (2000).

• Foreword by Janusz Bardach Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Ansky Visits Ludmir 1. A Dybbuk Trilogy, or How the Maiden of Ludmir Became a Literary Figure 2. Writing the Maiden 3. Afterlives: Remembering the Maiden 4. The Curse, the Cossacks, and the Messiah: Ludmir Before the Maiden 5. Birth and Childhood 6. Love and Death [Illustration section] 7. The Maiden Possessed 8. False Male and Woman Rebbe? 9. The Witch-hunt in Ludmir 10. The Wedding and Its Aftermath 11. In the Holy Land Conclusion: Tracing the Maiden Afterword: Journey to Ludmir Notes Bibliography Index