The saints' impresarios : dreamers, healers, and holy men in Israel's urban periphery / / Yoram Bilu ; translated by Haim Watzman.
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| Superior document: | Israel, society, culture, and history |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
| Series: | Israel (Boston, Mass.)
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| Physical Description: | iv, 354 p. |
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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.