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Author Yassif, Eli

Title The Legend of Safed : Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah
Published OnixTransformation. OnixModel. CityOfPublication : Wayne State University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Series Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology.
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Voices Rising from Safed; Wonderful, Wretched Safed; Voices from Outside; Discord and Strife; Halakhists and Kabbalists; Chapter 2. The Myth and Its Disenchantment; Of Oxen and Beards; Spirits, Reincarnations, and Other Visions; From the Beards of the West to the Sidelocks of the East; The Procession of the Dead; "Toro muerto, vaca es" (A Dead Ox Is a Cow); Chapter 3. In Fields and Wilderness; Safed Stories as Local Legends; The Axis of the World; The Galilee as a Semiotic Space; A World Full of Souls
A Mythical SpaceThe Place as an Ideal and a Rupture; Chapter 4. And He Woke and It Was a Dream; The Dream and the Fairy Tale; Shmuel Vital, Master of Dreams; Hayyim Vital's Nightmarish Dreams; The Enchanted Garden; Turning Distress into Legend; Chapter 5. Sin Crouches at the Door; From Birth to Death; Nothing Is Hidden from His Eyes; Reality Is Unintelligible, but Its Signs Are Open; From the Erotic to the Demonic; A Spirit Entered Her; Chapter 6. And He Had Knowledge About Everyone; Our Own Eyes Saw Terrifying Things; Luria Exorcises a Spirit; The Hidden World
Concealment, Mystery, and CharismaBetween Visible and Invisible; Were All the Seas Ink and All the Sky Parchment; Chapter 7. Life and Legend; Inconsistency Is in the Eye of the Beholder; Existential Tension Resolves Opposites; Family or Messiah?; The Messianic Age Is Here and Now; The Legend Speaks; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Jewish life through the legends created and narrated in Safed in the sixteenth century
Notes Print version record
Subject Jewish folk literature -- History and criticism
Jewish folk literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Watzman, Haim
ISBN 9780814341117
081434111X