This probably the most Jewish film the Coen Brothers have made to date (and that's saying a lot if you take The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink & Miller's Crossing into account), starts out with a "folk tale" that the Coen's actually wrote for the film in Yiddish which features an often over looked Jewish "monster." Famed Yiddish thespian Fyvush Finkel is occupying the role of "Treitle Groshkover--Dybbuk." In Jewish myth a dybbuk is a disembodied spirit that can possess a living person--sometimes with a mission to accomplish; in most tales the dybbuk departs when the task is done. So whatever the Dybbuk in the Coen's tale was really up to, if he hoped to gain help with a supernatural task, he sure didn't get very far with Dora the wife!!
For something truly weird and kind of random, check out the Dybbuk Box! More here.
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