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The Saints' Impresarios: Dreamers, Healers, and Holy men in Israel's Urban Periphery (Israel: Society, Culture, and History) (in English)
Yoram Bilu (Author)
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The Saints' Impresarios: Dreamers, Healers, and Holy men in Israel's Urban Periphery (Israel: Society, Culture, and History) (in English) - Yoram Bilu
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Synopsis "The Saints' Impresarios: Dreamers, Healers, and Holy men in Israel's Urban Periphery (Israel: Society, Culture, and History) (in English)"
The astonishing revival of saint worship in contemporary Israel was ignited by Moroccan Jews, who had immigrated to the new country in the 1950s and 1960s. 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.
