A Paradoxical Pilgrimage. The Ghriba Synagogue in Djerba
Contenu
Albera, Dionigi, et Pénicaud, Manoël. 2021. « A Paradoxical Pilgrimage. The Ghriba Synagogue in Djerba ». Religiographies 1: 96-116, bibliographie, consulté le 10 mai 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/53013
- Titre
- A Paradoxical Pilgrimage. The Ghriba Synagogue in Djerba
- Auteur
- Albera, Dionigi Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Pénicaud, Manoël Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Date
- 2022
- Dans
- Religiographies Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Résumé
- In North Africa, the long-term coexistence between Jews and Muslims generated many interfaith crossings. It was not uncommon for the followers of one religion to visit a shrine of the other, in order to obtain baraka (divine grace). This phenomenon has mostly disappeared throughout the Maghreb, but it persists on the island of Djerba (southern Tunisia), where over a thousand Jews are still living. Every year, for the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba’Omer, a pilgrimage gathers together thousands of Jewish pilgrims in the Ghriba synagogue. Many come from abroad, notably from France and Israel, where many Tunisian Jews migrated after the mid-20th century. Some Muslims also participate at different moments of the pilgrimage. Based on historical research and on ethnographic work carried out in 2014 and 2022, this article elucidates a series of paradoxes that make the singularity of this holy place. Here the interactions between Jews and Muslims at the shrine are characterized by an intense conviviality. Yet, during the last decades this site has been affected by tangible eruptions of bloody violence by Islamist terrorists. The structure of the pilgrimage seems to rest on a delicate balance between local and external forces. More generally, the Ghriba pilgrimage is crossed by major political dynamics, and is recurrently affected by the turmoil of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Sujet
- Judaïsme -- Djerba Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Langue
- eng
- volume
- 1
- pages
- 96-116
Albera, Dionigi, et Pénicaud, Manoël. 2021. « A Paradoxical Pilgrimage. The Ghriba Synagogue in Djerba ». Religiographies 1: 96-116, bibliographie, consulté le 10 mai 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/53013
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