“This dybbuk was also haunting Ashkenazim”: cross-cultural solidarity through the lenses of performance and animation in Almog Behar’s “Ana Min Al-Yahud”

The trope of the dybbuk is ubiquitous in modern Jewish storytelling, and its secular renditions offer myriad possibilities: from feminist resistance to male gaze a place where belonging estrangement are negotiated context immigration exile. This article discusses uses Almog Behar’s short story “Ana Min Al-Yahud” through lenses animation as analysis, theorized by Teri Silvio, performance studies. It argues that not only an intradiegetic element helps characters make sense phenomenon they experiencing, but also extradiegetic force inserts much wider tradition, drawing continuum history storytelling opening, with text, path for solidarity among readers. Furthermore, work translation which went, several contexts so many languages, expands non-Jewish audiences.