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The saints' impresarios

dreamers, healers, and holy men in Israel's urban periphery

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The saints' impresarios
Yoram Bilu, Yoram Bilu
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dreamers, healers, and holy men in Israel's urban periphery

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Academic Studies Press
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Subjects

Zaddikim, Moroccan Jews, Shrines, Social life and customs, Hasidism, Morocco, social life and customs, Israel, religion

Places

Morocco, Israel

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The saints' impresarios: dreamers, healers, and holy men in Israel's urban periphery
2010, Academic Studies Press
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Saints' Impresarios: Dreamers, Healers, and Holy Men in Israel's Urban Periphery
2009, Academic Studies Press
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Saints' Impresarios: Dreamers, Healers, and Holy Men in Israel's Urban Periphery
2009, Academic Studies Press
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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Boston
Series
Israel: society, culture, and history

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Dewey Decimal Class
296.6/1
Library of Congress
BM750 .B52313 2010, BM750.B52313 2010

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p. cm.

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OL23980795M
ISBN 13
9781934843710
LCCN
2009050231
OCLC/WorldCat
468967103

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