The Saint of Beersheba

Index

Index Abitol, Michel, 6 Abouhatzeira, Rabbi Baruch, 99, 106, 116n.2. See also Baba Baruch Abouhatzeira, Rabbi Israel, 98. See also Baba Sali Abouhatzeira, Rabbi Yaacov, 98 Agouim, 15, 96 Alexandria, 98 Aliya I'regel, 9. See also Pilgrimage Antistructural, 51, 52 Aronoff, Myron, 89 Ashkenazim (European Jews), 19, 72,84,99 Aviad, Janet, 89 Baal Haness, Rabbi Meir, 22 Baba Sali, 29, 98-9, 106. See also Abouhatzeira, Rabbi Israel Baraka, 13 Bar Yochai, Rabbi Shimon, 22 Beersheba: mayor of, 19, 32, 86; military cemetery, 30; municipal cemetery, 8, 17, 58-9; political party factions, 19; Tunisians living in, 17 Ben Ami, Issachar, VII, 15, 16, 73-5,85,94-7,101 Ben Amos, D., and K. Goldstein, 49 Ben Ari, Eyal, and Yoram Bilu, 71, 100 Ben Dor, S., 105 Berbers, 2, 3 Beth She'an, 71, 95 145 Bilu, Yoram, 13, 15, 77-8,95-6,98 Bnai Brak, 7 Cemetery: in North African Jewish tradition, 59; transformed during pilgrimage, 58-60. See also Pollution Chorus, 65 Chouri, Rabbi Chayim: immigration to Israel, 7; magical powers, 21-2,39-43; how pilgrimage developed, 8, 16-22, Tunisian background, 2, 4-7. See also Hillula; Zaddik Chouri family, 19, 25, 26, 27, 35-6, 86,90 Cohen, Abner, 107-109 Cohen, Erik, 90 Concensus, 48, 52 Cultural performance, 49, 55,65. See also Performance; Singer, Milton Da Matta, Roberto, 107 Davis, Natalie, 49 David u'Moshe, Rabbi, 15,95-7 Deshen, Shlomo, 3, 11-12,39,76-7 Development towns, 71 Dighet, 3. See also Hara Sghira Dimona, 29, 71 Discord, 48, 52, 63 Durkheimian, 52, 82 Edah, 18, 70, 72. See also Ethnic Group 146 THE SAINT OF BEERSHEBA Eickelman, Dale, 14, 52 Ethnic group: ceremony of renewal, 81-2, 85, 93, 101, 105, 107, Ill; cultural pluralism, 73; organization of, 18, 70, 72; politics of, 87. See also Edah Ethiopian Jews, 105 Friedman, Menachem, 89 Funeral, in Jewish tradition, 59 Gabes, 4, 5, 16, 38, 41 "Gate of Paradise", 95 Geenz, Clifford, 14,23,47 Gellner, Ernest, 14 Georgian Jews, 72 German army, in Tunisia, 6, 41 Gluckman, Max, 76, 81 Goldberg, Harvey, 15, 101, 102 Goldstein, Judith, 104 Goldziher, Ignace, 11 Hacohen, Rabbi David, 4 Hacohen, Rabbi Moshe Khalfon, 4 Halper, Jeff, and Henry Abromovitz , 104 Hameagel, Rabbi Choni, 22, 94-5,98 Hara Kabira, 3 Hara Sghira, 3. See also Dighet Hasidim, 11, 16 Hatzor, 22, 94 Hazelton, Leslie, 80 Hebron, 1, 10 Hillula: behavior during, 25, 36; as ethnic celebration, 81-5; in Jewish tradition, 10-12; in North African tradition, 14-16; new hilluloth in Israel, 95-10 1; political dimensions, 85-91; social switchboard, 78-9; women participants, 79-81; who takes part, 37-9. See also Rabbi Chayim Chouri; Zaddik Hunt, Eva, 107 Hymes, D., 48 Icon, 46 Israel: immigration from Tunisia, 7; Independence Day, 22; nationalism and fundamentalism, 88-91; North African immigrants and ethniciry, 69-73; religious orientations, 38-9; Six Day War, 72, 88 Jellaba,29,32 Jerba, 2-5, 7, 16 Jerusalem, 1, 2, 10, 102 Jewish Agency, 7 Kabbala, 10 Kabbalists, 13 Kaddish prayer, 8, 17, 59 Kadosh, 13, 99. See also Zaddik Kapferer, Bruce, 49 Kiryat, Gat, 71 Kiryat Shmonah, 71 Kurdish Jews, 104 Labor Parry, 87,89,90,104 Lag B'Omer, 22, 24, 75. See also Meron Leibman, Charles, 39 Likud Parry, 87, 90 Liminal, 48, 57 Liminaliry, 50, 57, 66 MacAloon, J., 49 Maimonides, 102 Male-female relations: as contest, 62; among Jews, 60-1; male exc!usiviry, 62-3; among North American Jews, 80; separation of women, 62-3 Manning, Frank, 107 Marabout, 13, 14 Mawlid, 11 Mazuz, Rabbi Zaken Moshe, 4 INDEX 147 Meron, 22, 24, 30, 75. See also Lag B'Omer Mikva,26 Mimouna, 101-6 Morocco, saints in, 14-16 Moroccan Jews: ethnic demonstrations , 82-4; experience in Israel, 71-2; at hillula, 18,37; political mobility, 87-8; relations with Tunisians, 64-5. See also North African Jews Moshavim, 71 Multivocal, 1, 23, 66 Musem,14 Netivoth, 98, 99 North African Jews: in cemetery, 59; at hillula, 26, 37. See also Moroccan Jews; Tunisian Jews Notting Hill Carnival: adopted by West Indians, 108; compared with mimouna, 110; first stages, 108; Trinidadian elements , 109 Palestine, 10 Performance: "center stage", 56; component elements, 53-5; defined, 48; uses in social science , 48-50 Persian Jews, 104 Pilgrimage, 9, 48, 51, 52. See also Aliya l'rege/; Hillula Pluralism, 84 Pollution, 26, 59,61. See also Cemetery Posters...