While the array of demons mentioned in talmudic literature does not include vampires, occasional reference to such creatures does appear in medieval rabbinic texts. Elon Gilad notes some examples, most prominently a passage from the 13th-century ethical-pietistic work Sefer Ḥasidim which describes a flying, blood-sucking, female human-like creature called a striya. (Free registration required):
Belief in striyas was probably borrowed from [Jews’] Gentile neighbors, who believed in living-dead beings called strigoi in Romanian, shtriga in Albanian, and strzygi in Polish. So it seems some Jews believed in vampires after all, but this belief never caught on and became widespread.
Today nobody believes in vampires anymore. But when the vampire fiction making the rounds in the West began to be translated into Hebrew, revivalists needed to find a word for the imaginary being of the night. They did: the modern Hebrew word for “vampire” is arpad—taken from an obscure Aramaic word in the Talmud for “bat” (Bava Kama 16a).
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