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Coverage: Morocco Coverage: Morocco Publisher: Wayne State University Press Publisher: Wayne State University Press Subject: Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--Morocco Subject: Rabbis--Morocco--Biography Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies-
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 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 multipl…