Description: Without Bounds illuminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana.
Brief description: Yoram Bilu is a professor of psychology and anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also co-editor of Grasping Land: Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli Discourse and Experience (State University of New York Press, 1997)
Review Quotes:
This text is superb. It traces the life of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana- a Moroccan Jewish saint- the development of his cult in Morocco, and his career as a cult figure in Israel following his death. Professor Bilu is arguably the expert par excellence of Jewish folk religion in Israel, and, as expected, his treatment of Wazana- historically, biographically, anthropologically, and psychologically- is masterful.
--Melford E. Spiro "University of California, San Diego"