TY - BOOK ID - 33239195 TI - Without Bounds : The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana PY - 2017 SN - 0814343252 0814343244 PB - Wayne State University Press DB - UniCat KW - Wazana, Yáacov. KW - Ṿazanah, Yaʻaḳov KW - Wazana, Ya'aqov KW - ואזנה, יעקב KW - Medicine, Popular. KW - Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric KW - Rabbis KW - Magic medicine KW - Medicine, Mystic KW - Medicine, Occult KW - Medicine, Spagiric KW - Mystic medicine KW - Occult medicine KW - Spagiric medicine KW - Spagyric medicine KW - Alchemy KW - Alternative medicine KW - Magic KW - Superstition KW - Medicine KW - Biography: religious & spiritual UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33239195 AB - Without Bounds illuminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana, a Jewish healer who worked in the Western High Atlas region in southern Morocco and died there in the early 1950s. Impressed by his healing powers and shamanic virtuosity, Moroccan Jews are intrigued by his lifestyle and contacts with the Muslim and the demonic worlds that dangerously blurred his Jewish identity. Based on interviews with Moroccan Jews conducted in the late 1980s, Without Bounds proposes multiple readings of Wazana's life. Yoram Bilu re-creates the influences and important moments in Wazana's life and evaluates his character from psychological and anthropological perspectives. Human- and demon-bound, holy and impure, Jew and Muslim, old and young, Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana dissolved the boundaries of the major social categories in Morocco and integrated them into his identity. ER -