TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bilu,Yoram
AU  - Watzman,Haim
TI  - The saints' impresarios: dreamers, healers, and holy men in Israel's urban periphery 
T2  - Israel, society, culture, and history
SN  - 1618110217 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BM750 .B52313 2010eb
U1  - 296.6/1 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - Zaddikim
KW  - Israel
KW  - Morocco
KW  - Jews, Moroccan
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Shrines
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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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