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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 1950's and 1960's. 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.

Zaddikim --- Jews, Moroccan --- Shrines --- Moroccan Jews --- Jewish saints --- Tsadikim --- Tzaddikim --- Zadikim --- Hasidism --- Saints --- Social life and customs. --- Hasidim

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This accessible study is the first critical investigation of the cult of saints among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria and the Near East. Through case studies of saints and their devotees, discussion of the architecture of monuments, examination of devotional objects, and analysis of ideas of 'holiness', Meri depicts the practices of living religion and explores the common heritage of all three monotheistic faiths. Critical readings of a wide range of contemporary sources - travel writing, geographical works, pilgrimage guides, legal writings, historical sources, hagiography, and biography - reveal a vibrant religious culture in which the veneration of saints and pilgrimage to tombs and shrines were fundamental.

Muslim saints --- Islamic shrines --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Zaddikim --- Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Cult --- History --- Tombs --- Saints musulmans --- Sanctuaires musulmans --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages musulmans --- Saints juifs --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages juifs --- Moyen-orient --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages musulmans --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages juifs --- Islamic saints --- Saints, Muslim --- Sufi saints --- Saints --- Islamic pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Muslim --- Muslim travelers --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Jewish saints --- Tsadikim --- Tzaddikim --- Zadikim --- Hasidism --- Jewish travelers --- Pilgrim Festivals (Judaism) --- Muslim shrines --- Shrines, Islamic --- Shrines, Muslim --- Shrines --- Cult&delete& --- History. --- Culte --- Histoire --- Hasidim --- Muslim saints - Cult - Syria - History --- Islamic shrines - Syria --- Islamic shrines - Middle East --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages - Middle East --- Zaddikim - Tombs - Middle East --- Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages - Middle East --- Syrie