The saints' impresarios
Subtitle: dreamers, healers, and holy men in Israel's urban periphery
By: Yoram Bilu ; translated by Haim Watzman.
Series: Israel: society, culture, and history
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781934843710
Subjects: Zaddikim -- Israel; Zaddikim -- Morocco; Jews, Moroccan -- Israel -- Social life and customs; Shrines -- Israel
Work titles: Shoshvine ha-ḳedoshim.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references 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-Ayyim 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-Ayyim family; title: The abode of Rabbi David u-Moshe at the dawn of the 21st century; title: Ya'ish O'ana, 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 Shean; title: Years later; title: The folk veneration of saints in Morocco and Israel; title: Esther Suissa and Rabbi Shimon bar-Yorai; title: From patient to healer; title: Written in the egg yolk : the healing art of female; title: 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.