From 26 September 2024 to 26 January 2025

Sometimes funny, sometimes frightening, sometimes a mixture of both, the dybbuk is haunted by Jewish literary and cinematographic inspirations. This wandering soul who takes possession of a living being originated in the old Yiddish theatre, appearing in Shlomo An-ski’s play ‘Between Two Worlds’, and has been travelling ever since, without a passport or any notion of time or the challenges of history, as shown for example in Romain Gary’s The Dance of Genghis Cohn. Curated by Samuel Blumenfeld and Pascale Samuel, with the collaboration of Dorota Sniezek, the mahJ presents around a hundred works from painting, music, film and literature, each in its own way provoking this teasing soul.

Le Dibbouk. Fantôme du monde disparu | Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (mahj.org)