Research Catalog

Title

Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews / edited by Peter Y Medding.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Medding, Peter.
• Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman.

Description

xvi, 345 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in contemporary Jewry, 0740-8625 ; 22

Subject

• Sephardim > Congresses
• Sephardim > Israel > Congresses
• Sephardim > Israel > Political activity > Congresses
• Jewish women in literature > Congresses
• Women immigrants in literature > Congresses
• Sephardim > Religious life > Congresses

Note

• "The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Herbrew University of Jerusalem."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Symposium : Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews. "Sephardic and Oriental" : Jews in Israel and western countries : migration, social change, and identification / Sergio DellaPergola ; Jews of Muslim lands in the modern period : history and historiography / Michel Abitbol ; The brief career of Prosper Cohen : a sectorial analysis of the North African Jewish leadership in the early years of Israeli statehood / Yaron Tsur ; From Arab diaspora to Eretz Israel : literary portraits of Mizrahi female immigrants in the 1940s and 1950s / Doli Benhabib ; The Sephardic Halakhic tradition in the 20th century / Zvi Zohar ; "Zikui harabim" : Ovadia Yosef's approach toward religious activism and his place in the Haredi movement within Mizrahi Jewry / Nissim Leon ; Studying Haredi Mizrahim in Israel : trends, achievements, and challenges / Kimmy Caplan ; Breaking their silence : Mizrahi women and the Israeli feminist movement / Henriette Dahan Kalev ; Conditional homelands and diasporas : Moroccan Jewish perspectives / Andre Levy ; Sephardic/Mizrahi/Arab-Jews : reflections on critical sociology and the study of Middle Eastern Jewries within the context of Israeli society / Harvey E. Goldberg and Chen Bram -- Review essays. The shaping of Israeli historiography / Dan Michman ; The Rabin assassination : looking back at a national trauma / Gerald Cromer -- Book reviews. Antisemitism, Holocaust, and genocide ; Biography, history, and the social sciences ; Language, literature, and the arts ; Religion, thought, and education ; Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East.

Call Number

*PXK 86-1520 v. 22

ISBN

• 9780195340976 (alk. paper)
• 0195340973 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007025549

OCLC

163603079

Title

Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews / edited by Peter Y Medding.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, 2007.

Series

Studies in contemporary Jewry, 0740-8625 ; 22

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Medding, Peter.

Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman.

Research Call Number

*PXK 86-1520 v. 22