Passionate Women, Passive Men by Janet Hadda Dictionaries With impressive scholarship and a

With impressive scholarship and a riveting sense of detail

possession by dybbuks (souls of the dead who enter the bodies of the living)

spice and wit

An intermediate and advanced textbook

Passionate Women, Passive Men by Janet Hadda Dictionaries With impressive scholarship and aSuicide is always a controversial issue. Among Jews, it is often taboo. Stereotypically, Jews do not commit suicide; certainly, they do not discuss it. Passionate Women, Passive Men: Suicide in Yiddish Literature challenges this perception, exploring the problem of suicide through a series of literary case studies. Hadda investigates the lives of these fictional suicides, asking the question: What could be so wrong in a person's life that