10/31/2023 0 Comments Jason schwartz author![]() Haxton mentions his Dibbuk website several times throughout the book, but never mentions the url. I'm not Jewish and constantly had to look up how these words should be read. The author (Jason Haxton) doesn't attempt to include an entire pronunciation for Dibbuk nor any of the other Jewish words. I do have a few minor semantic thoughts that could have made the book better for me: I will be recommending the book to friends. This book was mentioned in the article so I had to find out the whole story. Then I read an article in Entertainment Weekly (the one featuring Dr Who). I've seen the previews for the movie, but really hadn't paid that much attention to them. I'm not one to write reviews, but since there have been only six so far I thought I should add my 5 stars. But I expect that as part of a 'face saving' exercise, he doesn't expose all the curious happenings again, methinks, that's in case he's ridiculed for so doing. PS I would have given it five stars had the author expounded more upon the alleged weird phenomena which occurred while in proximity to his home. For it's a very interesting read if you are prepared to accept that Haxton is telling us the unadulterated truth, which. Otherwise, I advise that you steer well clear, and just buy it for anyone you know who is of 'open-minded stationing' in life. You don't need to be Jewish or of any particular religion to enjoy the story/facts described herein: just open minded! Indeed, I advise that you buy this book *only if* you are open minded enough to accept that there is a possibility of ghosts, spirits and hauntings. Now, surely that'll be the end of all the bizarre events which surround this box!? But no, thus read on, and you'll find out exactly the what, why, when, who and future of the allegedly haunted Dibbuk box.Ī very readable story ensues, which took me two days to finish and I was glued to every page. He who wins is Jason Haxton, a museum curator, respected academic & not least - our venerable author. Soon afterwards strange things start happening, until they too have had enough, and it goes back on ebay for the last time. Anyway, the box ends up on ebay and is won by a bunch of students. this reviewer is just too opinionated for that status!). I don't just say that in the hope of my one day becoming a vine reviewer. a malevolent spirit from Jewish folklore) Box is brought to his said shop and left there, strange things start to happen, and don't stop happening, until its then owner put the box up for sale on Ebay (a well known auction site which is inferior to Amazon in all respects, oh, and no. So far so good, save that one of same just happened to be the so called 'Dibbuk Box' - which any scientist would tell you, to this day, is just a quaint, antique wine box, constructed of wood, and therein the story might abruptly end that is to say, *if* you were entirely of scientific persuasion. Round the turn of the current century an antiques buyer visits, in his professional capacity, an estate sale, thus to procure goods to sell in his shop. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. ![]() If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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