The play involves several elderly
Jewish men from the old country, Russia, all members of a small synagogue in
Mineola, Long Island. The play opens with the hapless Sexton's daily quest to gather ten males to constitute a
minyan required in Jewish tradition to conduct a religious service. This search has suddenly become critical as the granddaughter of one of the men has apparently become possessed by the spirit of a
dybbuk, an evil spirit. The grandfather leaves the girl sitting in the office of the temple's young rabbi, who is
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