Book
The Saint of Beersheba
State University of New York Press • Albany • Published In 1990 • Pages: viii, 148
By: Weingrod, Alex.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document presents a brief biographical sketch of Rabbi Chayim Chouri, a new Jewish ZADDIK ('saint' or holy man), possessing special spiritual powers, and the yearly pilgrimage (HILLULA) to his grave in the municipal cemetery of the city of Beersheba in Israel's southern Negev region. Weingrod describes in detail the events taking place at the gravesite, and compares this pilgrimage to other similar celebrations in recent years that have taken place in Israel by Jews from Kurdistan, Iran, Ethiopia, Yemen, and Morocco (ca. 1960s-1980s). The author notes that the pilgrims who took part in the observances at the gravesite of the Rabbi Chayim Chouri were primarily immigrant Tunisians and Moroccans (the rabbi himself was of Tunisian origin).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- External migration
- Cultural identity and pride
- Ethnic stratification
- Cult of the dead
- Sacred objects and places
- Ritual
- Prophets and ascetics
- Priesthood
- Congregations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Israelis
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1978-1980s
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca.1957-1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Beersheba, southern Negev region, Israel
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Alex Weingrod ; [photography by Daniel Weingrod]
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-122) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89004047
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Israelis