The saints' impresarios : dreamers, healers, and holy men in Israel's urban periphery /

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The astonishing revival of saint worship in contemporary Israel was ignited by Moroccan Jews, who had immigrated to the new country in the 1950s and 1960s. The Saints' Impresarios charts the vicissitudes of four new domestic shrines, each established by Moroccan-born men and women in a peripher...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bilu, Yoram
Other Authors: Watzman, Haim
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Hebrew
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2010.
Series:Israel (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects:
Zaddikim > Israel.
Zaddikim > Morocco.
Jews, Moroccan > Israel > Social life and customs.
Shrines > Israel.
Saints juifs > Israël.
Saints juifs > Maroc.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
Jews, Moroccan > Social life and customs
Shrines
Zaddikim
Israel
Morocco
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The folk-veneration of saints in Morocco and Israel
  • Dream portal
  • Roots in the west : the cult of saints in Morocco
  • From west to east : Moroccan jewry in Israel
  • Native saints and immigrant saints : the sacred geography of Moroccan Jews in Israel
  • Avraham Ben-Ayyim and Rabbi David u-Moshe
  • A dream journey to the saint
  • A saint in the next room : Rabbi David u-Moshe and the Ben-Ayyim family
  • The abode of Rabbi David u-Moshe at the dawn of the 21st century
  • Ya'ish O'ana, Elijah the prophet and the gate of paradise
  • The road to paradise
  • Dreamers in paradise
  • Paradise lost
  • Alu Ezra and Rabbi Avraham Aouriwar
  • Early and late revelations
  • Life-story as folktale the cinderella of Beit Shean
  • Years later
  • The folk veneration of saints in Morocco and Israel
  • Esther Suissa and Rabbi Shimon bar-Yorai
  • From patient to healer
  • Written in the egg yolk : the healing art of female
  • Saints' impresarios
  • Esther and Rabbi Shimon : a return visit
  • The cult of saints from a comparative perspective : symbol, narrative, gender, and identity
  • Crosscutting stories : the saints' impresarios from a comparative perspective
  • Personal symbols and mythic narratives
  • Gender and sanctity : the female way to the Tsaddiq
  • Migrating traditions : the historic timing and the "shelf life" of the new shrines
  • The cult of saints as an Israeli and local phenomenon.

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