Ruthie Abeliovich is Lecturer in the Theatre Department at Haifa University, Israel.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface: In the SynagogueIntroduction1. The Messiah’s Mother Lamentation: The Sonic Imagination of The Eternal Jew 2. The Rise and Fall: The Return of The Dybbuk and the Making of the Acoustic Community3. "Who Will Save Us?" Hebrew Specters and the Performativity of Cultural Rupture in The Golem 4. Yaakov and Rachel: The Experience of SourceEpilogue: Against EphemeralityNotesBibliographyIndex

"The author's focus on historicizing and analyzing sound recordings and radio plays as a means to tackle the pervasive ephemerality problem in theater studies is a novel and valuable approach that represents a significant intervention in the field. These types of sources have had scant attention in theater studies to date, but Abeliovich makes a compelling argument that they belong at the center." — Debra Caplan, author of Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy

Ruthie Abeliovich is Lecturer in the Theatre Department at Haifa University, Israel.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface: In the SynagogueIntroduction1. The Messiah’s Mother Lamentation: The Sonic Imagination of The Eternal Jew 2. The Rise and Fall: The Return of The Dybbuk and the Making of the Acoustic Community3. "Who Will Save Us?" Hebrew Specters and the Performativity of Cultural Rupture in The Golem 4. Yaakov and Rachel: The Experience of SourceEpilogue: Against EphemeralityNotesBibliographyIndex

"The author's focus on historicizing and analyzing sound recordings and radio plays as a means to tackle the pervasive ephemerality problem in theater studies is a novel and valuable approach that represents a significant intervention in the field. These types of sources have had scant attention in theater studies to date, but Abeliovich makes a compelling argument that they belong at the center." — Debra Caplan, author of Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy

Ruthie Abeliovich is Lecturer in the Theatre Department at Haifa University, Israel.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface: In the SynagogueIntroduction1. The Messiah’s Mother Lamentation: The Sonic Imagination of The Eternal Jew 2. The Rise and Fall: The Return of The Dybbuk and the Making of the Acoustic Community3. "Who Will Save Us?" Hebrew Specters and the Performativity of Cultural Rupture in The Golem 4. Yaakov and Rachel: The Experience of SourceEpilogue: Against EphemeralityNotesBibliographyIndex

"The author's focus on historicizing and analyzing sound recordings and radio plays as a means to tackle the pervasive ephemerality problem in theater studies is a novel and valuable approach that represents a significant intervention in the field. These types of sources have had scant attention in theater studies to date, but Abeliovich makes a compelling argument that they belong at the center." — Debra Caplan, author of Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy