Without Bounds : The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana / / Yoram Bilu.
Without Bounds illuminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana, a Jewish healer who worked in the Western High Atlas region in southern Morocco and died there in the early 1950s. Impressed by his healing powers and shamanic virtuosity, Moroccan Jews are intrigued by his lifestyle an...
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| Superior document: | Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Detroit : : Wayne State University Press,, 2000. ©2000. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 2000 |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
| Series: | Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (187 pages). |
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| Other title: | Le-lo metsarim. |
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| Summary: | Without Bounds illuminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana, a Jewish healer who worked in the Western High Atlas region in southern Morocco and died there in the early 1950s. Impressed by his healing powers and shamanic virtuosity, Moroccan Jews are intrigued by his lifestyle and contacts with the Muslim and the demonic worlds that dangerously blurred his Jewish identity. Based on interviews with Moroccan Jews conducted in the late 1980s, Without Bounds proposes multiple readings of Wazana's life. Yoram Bilu re-creates the influences and important moments in Wazana's life and evaluates his character from psychological and anthropological perspectives. Human- and demon-bound, holy and impure, Jew and Muslim, old and young, Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana dissolved the boundaries of the major social categories in Morocco and integrated them into his identity. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-182). |
| ISBN: | 0814343252 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Yoram Bilu. |