Without Bounds : The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana /

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 an...

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Main Author: Bilu, Yoram (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2017.
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505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. In the Footsteps of Wazana; 2. They Remember Wazana; 3. Ait Wazana; 4. Born in Assarag-In the Heart of the Atlas Mountains; 5. Wazana and His Parents; 6. A Robe, a Bordo, and Other Objects; 7. Amidst Sages and Demons: The Apprenticeship of Wazana; 8. A Question of Identity: Pray as a Muslim and Marry a Demon; 9. "There Was Nobody like Rabbi Ya'aqov in the Whole World"; 10. Casablanca; 11. "He Was Our Great Healer"; 12. The Move to Agouim; 13. Death of Wazana; 14. "Nothing of His Remains"; 15. Wazana in Israel 
505 0 |a 16. The Song of the Sirens: The Psychology of Wazana17. Without Bounds: Wazana the Symbolic Type; 18. Wazana of the Heart; Epilogue: Wazana's Afterlife; Notes; Bibliography; Index 
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