Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Psychology at Hebrew University/Jerusalem, Yoram Bilu is a psychological anthropologist who focuses on Israeli society and Jewish traditional culture. His research interests include the anthropology of religion, culture and mental health, the sanctification of space in Israel, and Maghrebi Jewish culture. His perspective is consistently two-fold, as he seeks to highlight the interface between, on one hand, social actors as individuals, and on the other, the collective level of social ...