Article: The Curse of the Saint.

IN THE SUMMER OF 1997, OUR RESEARCH THREESOME reached the village of Tillit in the Dades Valley, on the southern side of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. My group included Joseph Chetrit, an Israeli scholar of Moroccan origin from Haifa, and Abderrahmane Lakhsassi, a Moroccan Berber scholar from Casablanca. It was the first of four summers of fieldwork at sites in rural Morocco that Jews once inhabited. In our effort to map the historical and cultural landscape of Jews who once lived among Berbers, the dominant population in rural Morocco, we encountered at every site of Jewish significance, at least one shrine of a holy man (qadosh). Tillit was no exception, and in theJewish ...

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