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Jeremy Dauber. In the Demon's Bedroom: Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 416 pp.

book’s subtitle was developed as a response to early nineteenth-century modernity. The term “overlapping spheres” begins to suggest this early modern complexity, but it would need to be further elaborated. In the end, this short but provocative book is a wonderful study that addresses an enticing theme with acumen and broad scholarly vision. It raises some central issues that have attracted the attention of the most reflective historians for generations, and it suggests ways to begin thinking about early modern Jewry with greater nuance and impact. Liberles, then, has offered us a valuable study with which to continue exploring the sources, as well as to develop new ways to capture Jewish experience. While he will not be here to continue the journey with us, he has helped set us on a remarkably exciting and useful path and for that, and for so much else, he will be fondly remembered.