Le retour des pèlerins: la fragile renaissance post-coloniale d’un rituel judéo-maghrébin
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Joëlle Bahloul [1]
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[1] Indiana University
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- Localización: Hesperis Tamuda, ISSN 0018-1005, Nº. 55, 3, 2020, págs. 35-47
- Idioma: francés
- Títulos paralelos:
- The Return of the Pilgrims: the Fragile Post-colonial Rebirth of a Judeo-Maghrebian Ritual
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Resumen
This chapter presents an ethnographic study carried out in 1979 during a Jewish pilgrimage to Constantine during the feast of Lag-Ba-Omer. A group of French Jews from Constantine was formed on this occasion to pay homage to Rabbi Sidi Fredj Halimi, who died a few years before Algerian independence and was buried in the local Jewish cemetery. Maghrebian Jewish pilgrimages, considered the main practice of the cult of saints, were an important part of the Maghrebian ritual calendar for more than a century. After decolonization and the Jewish migrations that accompanied it, these pilgrimages virtually disappeared. In the 1970s, some reappeared on the Judeo-Maghrebi ritual scene and were the subject of occasional returns from Maghrebian Jews to the burial sites of the great sages of the Judeo-Maghreb religious tradition. The 1979 pilgrimage was a celebration of the life of the Chief Rabbi of Constantine and the past of the pilgrims in their hometown. It combined, in complex, traditional and highly emotional practical forms, the sense of return, the perception of migration and the reinterpretation of the Jewish history of the decolonization of Algeria
