The saints' impresarios
Subtitle: dreamers, healers, and holy men in Israel's urban periphery
By: Yoram Bilu ; translated by Haim Watzman
Series: Israel; Israel (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Brighton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781934843710
Work titles: Shoshvine ha-ḳedoshim
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: The folk-veneration of saints in Morocco and Israel; title: Dream portal; title: Roots in the west : the cult of saints in Morocco; title: From west to east : Moroccan jewry in Israel; title: Native saints and immigrant saints : the "sacred geography" of Moroccan Jews in Israel; title: Avraham Ben-Ḥayyim and Rabbi David u-Moshe; title: A dream journey to the saint; title: A saint in the next room : Rabbi David u-Moshe and the Ben-Ḥayyim family; title: The abode of Rabbi David u-Moshe at the dawn of the 21st century; title: Ya'ish Oḥana, Elijah the prophet and the gate of paradise; title: The road to paradise; title: Dreamers in paradise; title: Paradise lost; title: Alu Ezra and Rabbi Avraham Aouriwar; title: Early and late revelations; title: Life-story as folktale : the cinderella of Beit She'an; title: Twenty years later; title: Esther Suissa and Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yoḥai; title: From patient to healer; title: Written in the egg yolk : the healing art of female saints' impresarios; title: Esther and Rabbi Shimon : a return visit; title: The cult of saints from a comparative perspective : symbol, narrative, gender, and identity; title: Crosscutting stories : the saints' impresarios from a comparative perspective; title: Personal symbols and mythic narratives; title: Gender and sanctity : the female way to the Tsaddiq; title: Migrating traditions : the historic timing and the "shelf life" of the new shrines; title: The cult of saints as an Israeli and local phenomenon.