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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.

Summary

This volume looks at the major and rapid changes undergone by Sephardic Jewry in the last 50 years, drawing on essays from the fields of demography, history, political science, literature, sociology, gender studies, and anthropology. Themes include identity and the invigoration of Sephardic Judaism.

Series Statement

Studies in contemporary Jewry, 0740-8625 ; 22

Uniform Title

Studies in contemporary Jewry 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
• Sefarden

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

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

LCCN

^^2007025549

OCLC

• 163603079
• SCSB-10736929

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library