The Saints' Impresarios: Dreamers, Healers, and Holy Men in Israel's Urban Periphery

by Yoram Bilu

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"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007RDNG18
• ISBN13: 9781934843710
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"