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Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews /

Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews offers a collection of new scholarship on the issues of self-definition and identity facing Sephardic Jewry. The essays draw on a variety of disciplines--demography, history, political science, sociology, religious and gender studies, anthropology, and literature. Co...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman
Other Authors: Medding, Peter Y.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 22.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.