Adne Sadeh
@adnesadeh.bsky.social
Apprentice Jewish monster hunter, podcaster, storyteller, teacher (occasionally), blogger (and AI researcher by day). He/him. https://linktr.ee/adnesadeh
Check it out! I've got a story in the Dec Washtenaw Jewish News. I was invited to contribute a winter-themed story so re-told "Og the Giant and the Tailor" which I originally read in Harold Schwartz' "Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism." It's matched by my "Og, King of Bashan" trading card.
December 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Check it out! I've got a story in the Dec Washtenaw Jewish News. I was invited to contribute a winter-themed story so re-told "Og the Giant and the Tailor" which I originally read in Harold Schwartz' "Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism." It's matched by my "Og, King of Bashan" trading card.
Just got the best Hanukkah present from Rabbi Josh Fixler (@fixler.bsky.social) of the Golem Museum. He 3D-printed a cool storage box for the Jewish Monster Hunting kit he bought from me during my kickstarter and he made me one too! It's amazing! Check it out!
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Just got the best Hanukkah present from Rabbi Josh Fixler (@fixler.bsky.social) of the Golem Museum. He 3D-printed a cool storage box for the Jewish Monster Hunting kit he bought from me during my kickstarter and he made me one too! It's amazing! Check it out!
A kinda bitchy Talmudic anti-water demon charm (Pesachim 112a)
"If he is thirsty, what is his remedy? He should say… Lul, Shafan, Anigron, Anirdafin, which are names of demons, I sit between the stars, I walk between thin and fat people, take any of them…but leave me alone"
"If he is thirsty, what is his remedy? He should say… Lul, Shafan, Anigron, Anirdafin, which are names of demons, I sit between the stars, I walk between thin and fat people, take any of them…but leave me alone"
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A kinda bitchy Talmudic anti-water demon charm (Pesachim 112a)
"If he is thirsty, what is his remedy? He should say… Lul, Shafan, Anigron, Anirdafin, which are names of demons, I sit between the stars, I walk between thin and fat people, take any of them…but leave me alone"
"If he is thirsty, what is his remedy? He should say… Lul, Shafan, Anigron, Anirdafin, which are names of demons, I sit between the stars, I walk between thin and fat people, take any of them…but leave me alone"
@shvlman
I'm digging through Yiddish illustrated books tonight and ran across Israel Steinbaum's "Leyenbikher far der yidisher shul" which has some excellent alef's.
I'm digging through Yiddish illustrated books tonight and ran across Israel Steinbaum's "Leyenbikher far der yidisher shul" which has some excellent alef's.
December 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
@shvlman
I'm digging through Yiddish illustrated books tonight and ran across Israel Steinbaum's "Leyenbikher far der yidisher shul" which has some excellent alef's.
I'm digging through Yiddish illustrated books tonight and ran across Israel Steinbaum's "Leyenbikher far der yidisher shul" which has some excellent alef's.
Listening to a fantastic d'var torah for Parshat No-ah about the destruction of the giants by the same guy who was lead signer of Sha Na Na at Woodstock, Dr. Alan Cooper of emeritus prof at JTS. (He's singing lead with the shiny vest)
www.jtsa.edu/torah/why-di...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXLs...
www.jtsa.edu/torah/why-di...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXLs...
Sha-Na-Na Live @ Woodstock 1969 At The Hop .mpg
YouTube video by TheModernDayPirate
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November 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Listening to a fantastic d'var torah for Parshat No-ah about the destruction of the giants by the same guy who was lead signer of Sha Na Na at Woodstock, Dr. Alan Cooper of emeritus prof at JTS. (He's singing lead with the shiny vest)
www.jtsa.edu/torah/why-di...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXLs...
www.jtsa.edu/torah/why-di...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXLs...
My Shabbat reading is Hans Jonas 1984 lecture “The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice” which is a Jewish Process Theology focusing on evil. It’s a great read. I landed on it while studying giants in Tanakh.
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
My Shabbat reading is Hans Jonas 1984 lecture “The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice” which is a Jewish Process Theology focusing on evil. It’s a great read. I landed on it while studying giants in Tanakh.
Am making a second attempt to get a .pdf copy of Beatrice Weinreich's 1957 dissertation "The prophet Elijah in modern Yiddish folktales" from Columbia's library. Last time they were were short staffed. If they are again I'll shell out $ and pay a grad student there to do scan it for me.
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Am making a second attempt to get a .pdf copy of Beatrice Weinreich's 1957 dissertation "The prophet Elijah in modern Yiddish folktales" from Columbia's library. Last time they were were short staffed. If they are again I'll shell out $ and pay a grad student there to do scan it for me.
rereading Jacob Z. Lauterbach's "The Ceremony of Breaking a Glass at Weddings" again (I re-read it regularly. It's all about shedim, ya know?) and am again marveling that's 100 years old this year.
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
rereading Jacob Z. Lauterbach's "The Ceremony of Breaking a Glass at Weddings" again (I re-read it regularly. It's all about shedim, ya know?) and am again marveling that's 100 years old this year.
New book! “The Writer” by Josh Gad, the Berkowitz Bros, Ariel Olivetti and Frank Cvetkovic. A comic book about a Jewish comic book writer loaded with Jewish monsters and magic. It’s wild. I don’t love it, it’s a bit to chaotic for me. But it’s fun and with checking out.
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
New book! “The Writer” by Josh Gad, the Berkowitz Bros, Ariel Olivetti and Frank Cvetkovic. A comic book about a Jewish comic book writer loaded with Jewish monsters and magic. It’s wild. I don’t love it, it’s a bit to chaotic for me. But it’s fun and with checking out.
Shabbat Shalom everyone
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Shabbat Shalom everyone
Reposted by Adne Sadeh
@miriamanzovin.bsky.social & @adnesadeh.bsky.social
Something that might interest you:
www.guyshilo.com/tevel
Something that might interest you:
www.guyshilo.com/tevel
Tevel | Short Film
When Daphna’s daughter starts acting weird, she discovers that a demon possesses her. Will she manage to save her before it’s too late?
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November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
@miriamanzovin.bsky.social & @adnesadeh.bsky.social
Something that might interest you:
www.guyshilo.com/tevel
Something that might interest you:
www.guyshilo.com/tevel
Bought a Hanukkah Latke golem sweater from @martifuerst.bsky.social. Am very excited.
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Bought a Hanukkah Latke golem sweater from @martifuerst.bsky.social. Am very excited.
New book! Josephson-Storm’s “The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences.” It focuses on western philosophy with passing reference to Kabbalah. It’ll be a great companion for Gideon Bohak’s article “How Jewish Magic Survived the Disenchantment of the World”
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
New book! Josephson-Storm’s “The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences.” It focuses on western philosophy with passing reference to Kabbalah. It’ll be a great companion for Gideon Bohak’s article “How Jewish Magic Survived the Disenchantment of the World”
I love this illustration by Yosl Kottler. Looking for inspiration for my “Water Shedim” card and found Kottler, who was a Yiddish speaking Jewish American poet, artist, puppeteer and composer at the beginning of the 1900’s
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I love this illustration by Yosl Kottler. Looking for inspiration for my “Water Shedim” card and found Kottler, who was a Yiddish speaking Jewish American poet, artist, puppeteer and composer at the beginning of the 1900’s
Fascinating 1891 anthropological description of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews in Turkey. Very judgmental at times, but paints a fascinating picture. I originally ran across it looking at Jewish burial practices, like this one....
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Fascinating 1891 anthropological description of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews in Turkey. Very judgmental at times, but paints a fascinating picture. I originally ran across it looking at Jewish burial practices, like this one....
One of my buddies took a cool shot of me telling stories at Temple Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor. Very dramatic. Lol. And yeah, I’m sporting a Marti Fuerst giant frog shirt. 🤩🐸
www.martifuerst.com
www.martifuerst.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
One of my buddies took a cool shot of me telling stories at Temple Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor. Very dramatic. Lol. And yeah, I’m sporting a Marti Fuerst giant frog shirt. 🤩🐸
www.martifuerst.com
www.martifuerst.com
The best part of the storytelling last night was when a dad brought his 11 year old daughter over to look at my trading cards. She said that her friend had wanted Percy Jackson books to have Jewish mythology but that she didn't know if there was any...but she did now. She was pumped. Made my night
November 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The best part of the storytelling last night was when a dad brought his 11 year old daughter over to look at my trading cards. She said that her friend had wanted Percy Jackson books to have Jewish mythology but that she didn't know if there was any...but she did now. She was pumped. Made my night
The original Tale of Posen is amazing…shedim go to the rabbi's court to plead for their inheritance. But it's hard to tell because it lacks characters so I wrote (& performed) my own version based on the most unlikely characters: two half-shedim sisters who end up in the center of chaos.
A Tale of Posen: Eidel’s Story
This year I had the opportunity to tell Jewish monster and magic stories at Temple Beth Tikvah in Fullerton, CA and then at Temple Beth Emeth (my synagogue) in Ann Arbor, MI. I wanted to tell one of my favorite stories, which is sometimes called "A Tale of Posen."…
This year I had the opportunity to tell Jewish monster and magic stories at Temple Beth Tikvah in Fullerton, CA and then at Temple Beth Emeth (my synagogue) in Ann Arbor, MI. I wanted to tell one of my favorite stories, which is sometimes called "A Tale of Posen."…
A Tale of Posen: Eidel’s Story
This year I had the opportunity to tell Jewish monster and magic stories at Temple Beth Tikvah in Fullerton, CA and then at Temple Beth Emeth (my synagogue) in Ann Arbor, MI. I wanted to tell one of my favorite stories, which is sometimes called "A Tale of Posen." It's about a moment when half-shedim sued for their inheritance in a Jewish court.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The original Tale of Posen is amazing…shedim go to the rabbi's court to plead for their inheritance. But it's hard to tell because it lacks characters so I wrote (& performed) my own version based on the most unlikely characters: two half-shedim sisters who end up in the center of chaos.
A Tale of Posen: Eidel’s Story
This year I had the opportunity to tell Jewish monster and magic stories at Temple Beth Tikvah in Fullerton, CA and then at Temple Beth Emeth (my synagogue) in Ann Arbor, MI. I wanted to tell one of my favorite stories, which is sometimes called "A Tale of Posen."…
This year I had the opportunity to tell Jewish monster and magic stories at Temple Beth Tikvah in Fullerton, CA and then at Temple Beth Emeth (my synagogue) in Ann Arbor, MI. I wanted to tell one of my favorite stories, which is sometimes called "A Tale of Posen."…
A Tale of Posen: Eidel’s Story
This year I had the opportunity to tell Jewish monster and magic stories at Temple Beth Tikvah in Fullerton, CA and then at Temple Beth Emeth (my synagogue) in Ann Arbor, MI. I wanted to tell one of my favorite stories, which is sometimes called "A Tale of Posen." It's about a moment when half-shedim sued for their inheritance in a Jewish court.
jewishmonsterhunting.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A Tale of Posen: Eidel’s Story
This year I had the opportunity to tell Jewish monster and magic stories at Temple Beth Tikvah in Fullerton, CA and then at Temple Beth Emeth (my synagogue) in Ann Arbor, MI. I wanted to tell one of my favorite stories, which is sometimes called "A Tale of Posen."…
This year I had the opportunity to tell Jewish monster and magic stories at Temple Beth Tikvah in Fullerton, CA and then at Temple Beth Emeth (my synagogue) in Ann Arbor, MI. I wanted to tell one of my favorite stories, which is sometimes called "A Tale of Posen."…
I started working on decks gimmel and daled of Jewish Monster and Magic Trading Cards. I've got 6 done (out of 108). Gonna be at this a while :) Here's a first cut on card 149. "Satan"
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I started working on decks gimmel and daled of Jewish Monster and Magic Trading Cards. I've got 6 done (out of 108). Gonna be at this a while :) Here's a first cut on card 149. "Satan"
just hung out in the parking lot of a coffee shop rehearsing my stories in my car. Good thing it was dark. I wave my hands around a lot.
October 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
just hung out in the parking lot of a coffee shop rehearsing my stories in my car. Good thing it was dark. I wave my hands around a lot.
Should be rehearsing for my storytelling this Saturday night, instead reading the Jewish Encyclopedia article on the history of Jews in Posen.
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Should be rehearsing for my storytelling this Saturday night, instead reading the Jewish Encyclopedia article on the history of Jews in Posen.
Had fun today, I was a guest in the Writers Guilds of America panel titled "Remaking Myths: Jewish Representation in Horror, Fantasy & Folklore" along with Molly Adams (Jewish Horror Review), Laura Dooney & Jason Rostovsky (writers of Agatha All Long), writer Jenn Frazin & others. Great discussion.
October 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Had fun today, I was a guest in the Writers Guilds of America panel titled "Remaking Myths: Jewish Representation in Horror, Fantasy & Folklore" along with Molly Adams (Jewish Horror Review), Laura Dooney & Jason Rostovsky (writers of Agatha All Long), writer Jenn Frazin & others. Great discussion.
Guess who guested on the latest @pjlibrary.org "Beyond the Bookcase" podcast? :)
"We had a chat with a real-life monster expert! Join Golem and producer Ali as they sit down with Jack Zaientz from JewishMonsterHunting.com"
It was super fun. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
"We had a chat with a real-life monster expert! Join Golem and producer Ali as they sit down with Jack Zaientz from JewishMonsterHunting.com"
It was super fun. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
October 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Guess who guested on the latest @pjlibrary.org "Beyond the Bookcase" podcast? :)
"We had a chat with a real-life monster expert! Join Golem and producer Ali as they sit down with Jack Zaientz from JewishMonsterHunting.com"
It was super fun. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
"We had a chat with a real-life monster expert! Join Golem and producer Ali as they sit down with Jack Zaientz from JewishMonsterHunting.com"
It was super fun. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
Reposted by Adne Sadeh
The Tree of Knowledge (Ets ha-Da’at):magic spells from Jewish potion book.Journeys of the Written Word is a tiny little codex from 16C Italy.It has 125 magic spells for all sorts of purposes: curses, healing potions, love charms, amulets.
blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-af...
blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-af...
The Tree of Knowledge: magic spells from a Jewish potion book
A 16th-century collection of some 125 magic spells for all sorts of purposes: curses, healing potions, love charms, amulets.
blogs.bl.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The Tree of Knowledge (Ets ha-Da’at):magic spells from Jewish potion book.Journeys of the Written Word is a tiny little codex from 16C Italy.It has 125 magic spells for all sorts of purposes: curses, healing potions, love charms, amulets.
blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-af...
blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-af...