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

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

Israel: Society, Culture, and History

Yoram Bilu

364 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology
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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 establis...

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