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

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 345 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Studies in contemporary Jewry, an annual ; 22
Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 22.
Bibliography 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.
Summary 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. Contributors explore the issues surrounding the emergence and increasingly wide usage of "Mizrahi" in place of "Sephardic," as well as the invigoration of Sephardic Judaism. They look at the evolution of Sephardic politics in Israel through the dramatic rise and continuing influence of the Shas political party and its spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Other contributors examine the variegated nature of Mizrahi immigration to Israel, fictional portraits of female Mizrahi immigrants to Israel in the 1940s and 1950s, contemporary Mizrahi Israel feminism, modern Arab historiography's portrayal of Jews of Muslim lands, and the changing Sephardic halakhic tradition. --From publisher's description.
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Subject Sephardim -- Congresses.
Sephardim.
Sephardim -- Israel -- Congresses.
Israel.
Sephardim -- Political activity -- Israel -- Congresses.
Political participation.
Jewish women in literature -- Congresses.
Jewish women in literature.
Women immigrants in literature -- Congresses.
Women immigrants in literature.
Sephardim -- Religious life -- Congresses.
Sephardim -- Religious life.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Medding, Peter Y.
Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman.
Other Form: Print version: Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews. Oxford ; New York : Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, 2007 9780195340976 0195340973 (DLC) 2007025549 (OCoLC)163603079
ISBN 9780199712502 (electronic book)
0199712506 (electronic book)
9780195340976 (alkaline paper)
0195340973 (alkaline paper)