The saints' impresarios dreamers, healers, and holy men in Israel's urban periphery / Yoram Bilu ; translated by Haim Watzman.

Author/creator Bilu, Yoram
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBrighton, MA : Academic Studies Press,
Descriptioniv, 354 p. ; 25 cm.
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Uniform titleShoshvine ha-k̀£edoshim. English
SeriesIsrael
Israel (Boston, Mass.) ^A1154193
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-Ḥayyim and Rabbi David u-Moshe -- A dream journey to the saint -- A saint in the next room : Rabbi David u-Moshe and the Ben-Ḥayyim family -- The abode of Rabbi David u-Moshe at the dawn of the 21st century -- Ya'ish Oḥana, 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 She'an -- Twenty years later -- Esther Suissa and Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yoḥai -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 325-344) and index.
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LCCN 2009050231
ISBN9781934843710 (hardback)
ISBN1934843717 (hardback)

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