The Saints' Impresarios : : Dreamers, Healers, and Holy Men in Israel's Urban Periphery / / Yoram Bilu.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. The Folk-Veneration of Saints in Morocco and Israel
- II. Avraham Ben-Ḥayyim and Rabbi David u-Moshe
- III. Ya'ish OḤana, Elijah the Prophet and the Gate of Paradise
- IV. Alu Ezra and Rabbi Avraham Aouriwar
- V. Esther Suissa and Rabbi Shimon Bar-YoḤai
- VI. The Cult of Saints from a Comparative Perspective: Symbol, Narrative, Gender, and Identity
- Bibliography
- Index