LEADER 04593nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910819394703321 005 20230207231412.0 010 $a1-61811-021-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781618110213 035 $a(CKB)2550000000063011 035 $a(OCoLC)769188623 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10509035 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565418 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12252693 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565418 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10533416 035 $a(PQKB)11216724 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3110410 035 $a(DE-B1597)541050 035 $a(OCoLC)1135589288 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781618110213 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3110410 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10509035 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL574343 035 $a(OCoLC)922977690 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000063011 100 $a20091214d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe saints' impresarios$b[electronic resource] $edreamers, healers, and holy men in Israel's urban periphery /$fYoram Bilu ; translated by Haim Watzman 210 $aBoston $cAcademic Studies Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (362 p.) 225 1 $aIsrael, society, culture, and history 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-934843-71-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThe astonishing revival of saint worship in contemporary Israel was ignited by Moroccan Jews, who had immigrated to the new country in the 1950's and 1960's. The Saints' Impresarios charts the vicissitudes of four new domestic shrines, each established by Moroccan-born men and women in a peripheral development town, following an exciting revelation involving a saintly figure. Each of the case studies discussing the life stories of the "saint impresarios" elaborates on a distinctive theme: dreams as psychocultural triggers for revelation; family and community responses to the initiative; female saint impresarios as healers; and the alleviation of life crises through the saint's idiom. The initiatives are evaluated against the historical background of Jews in Morocco and the sociopolitical and cultural changes in present-day Israeli society. The original Hebrew edition garnered the coveted Bahat Prize (Haifa University Press) for best academic book in 2006. For readers interested in Israel and Jewish Studies, folk religion and mysticism, cultural and psychological anthropology, and Moroccan Jews. 410 0$aIsrael (Boston, Mass.) 606 $aZaddikim$zIsrael 606 $aZaddikim$zMorocco 606 $aJews, Moroccan$zIsrael$xSocial life and customs 606 $aShrines$zIsrael 615 0$aZaddikim 615 0$aZaddikim 615 0$aJews, Moroccan$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aShrines 676 $a296.6/1 700 $aBilu$b Yoram$0170194 701 $aWatzman$b Haim$01621545 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819394703321 996 $aThe saints' impresarios$94049602 997 $aUNINA