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Adne Sadeh
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Apprentice Jewish monster hunter, podcaster, storyteller, teacher (occasionally), blogger (and AI researcher by day). He/him. https://linktr.ee/adnesadeh
Shabbat Shalom everyone
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Bought a Hanukkah Latke golem sweater from @martifuerst.bsky.social. Am very excited.
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 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”
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 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
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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
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
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 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
November 2, 2025 at 11:54 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."…
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 11:26 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."…
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
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
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
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
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
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.
October 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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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...
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
This is amazing
October 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN!

In Daniel 5, King Belshazzar is FREAKING OUT because a hand appears and writes some weird shit on the wall. So the prophet Daniel gets called to interpret. And yeah, it's a message saying "you suck and you dead." And that night Belshazzar died.
October 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Remember the reason for the season!

Keep the Boo! in Hoyshane Raboo!
October 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If you're local to Southeast Michigan, come to my Jewish monsters story telling at Temple Beth Emeth on Nov 1. I'll be telling stories supported by other storytellers from the congregation. Last year was a blast.
October 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I'm hosting a Jewish monster story telling on Nov 2 at Temple Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor. Starting to rehearse. Whew...I performed these stories 6 months ago but I'm mostly starting over to get them back.
October 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Shalom friends!
Did you know there are secret Jewish teachings hidden within the art of the #Tarot de Marseille cards, so that crypto-Jews could preserve knowledge of their traditions? Welcome to #JewishBookReactions: The Torah in the Tarot, by Stav Appel! ✨

youtu.be/EKuhg976Asg
Jewish Book Reactions: Torah in the Tarot by Stav Appel!
YouTube video by Miriam Anzovin
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October 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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The Alphabet of Rabbi Akiva explains the shapes of all Hebrew letters. The explanations are cute and amusing, so allow me to share them:

Aleph א stands on two legs because it is the first letter of truth (אמת) and falsehoods have no leg to stand on. Its hand points to God, who is Truth.
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Hey Chabad folks, anyone have any connection to the “Lubavitch Archive” referred to in this photo of Rabbi Menachem Tzvi Rivkin? I’d like talk to them about permission to use the photo in a trading card that tells the story of his earring.

collive.com/the-top-hat-...
October 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM