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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Medding, Peter.

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

Series:

Studies in contemporary Jewry 0740-8625 ; 22.

Studies in contemporary Jewry, 0740-8625 ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sephardim--Congresses.

Sephardim.

Sephardim--Israel--Congresses.

Sephardim--Political activity--Israel--Congresses.

Political participation.

Sephardim--Religious life.

Women immigrants in literature.

Jewish women in literature.

Israel.

Jewish women in literature--Congresses.

Women immigrants in literature--Congresses.

Sephardim--Religious life--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Contents:

"Sephardic and Oriental" Jews in Israel and Western Countries: Migration, Social Change, and Identification / Sergio DellaPergola 3

Jews of Muslim Lands in the Modern Period: History and Historiography / Michel Abitbol 44

The Brief Career of Prosper Cohen: A Sectorial Analysis of the North African Jewish Leadership in the Early Years of Israeli Statehood / Yaron Tsur 66

From Arab Diaspora to Eretz Israel: Literary Portraits of Mizrahi Female Immigrants in the 1940s and 1950s / Doli Benhabib 100

The Sephardic Halakhic Tradition in the 20th Century / Zvi Zohar 119

"Zikui Harabim": Ovadia Yosef's Approach toward Religious Activism and His Place in the Haredi Movement within Mizrahi Jewry / Nissim Leon 150

Studying Haredi Mizrahim in Israel: Trends, Achievements, and Challenges / Kimmy Caplan 169

Breaking Their Silence: Mizrahi Women and the Israeli Feminist Movement / Henriette Dahan Kalev 193

Conditional Homelands and Diasporas: Moroccan Jewish Perspectives / Andre Levy 210

Sephardic/Mizrahi/Arab-Jews: Reflections on Critical Sociology and the Study of Middle Eastern Jewries within the Context of Israeli Society / Harvey E. Goldberg, Chen Bram 227

Review Essays

The Shaping of Israeli Historiography of the Holocaust / Dan Michman 259

The Rabin Assassination: Looking Back at a National Trauma / Gerald Cromer 267

Book Reviews (arranged by subject)

Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide

Jack R. Fischel and Susan Ortmann, The Holocaust and Its Religious Impact: A Critical Assessment / Avraham Greenbaum 279

Yosef Gorny, Between Auschwitz and Jerusalem / Ariel Feldestein 280

Gabor Kadar and Zoltan Vagi, Self-Financing Genocide: The Gold Train, the Becher Case and the Wealth of Hungarian Jews / Randolph L. Braham 282

Orna Kenan, Between Memory and History: The Evolution of Israeli Historiography of the Holocaust, 1945-1961 / Dan Michman 259

Renee Poznanski, Jews in France during World War II, trans. Nathan Bracher / Jacques Adler 284

Rochelle G. Saidel, The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp / Judith Baumel-Schwartz 286

Biography, History, and the Social Sciences

Judith Deutsch-Kornblatt, Doubly Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church / Dina Zisserman-Brodsky 289

Zvi Gitelman (ed.), The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics: Bundism and Zionism in Eastern Europe / Gertrud Pickhan 291

Jeffrey S. Gurock, Judaism's Encounter with American Sports / Lloyd P. Gartner 294

Uzi Rebhun, Hagirah, kehilah, hizdahut: yehudei arzot habrit beshilhei hameah ha'esrim (Migration, community, and identification: Jews in late 20th-century America) / Paul Ritterband 296

Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century / Jonathan Frankel 298

Aaron Surasky, Melekh beyofyo: toledot hayav po'alo vedarko bakodesh shel maran hagaon R. Yehezkel Abramsky (The life and holy path of R. Yehezkel Abramsky) / Lloyd P. Gartner 302

Language, Literature, and the Arts

Samantha Baskind, Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art / Ziva Amishai-Maisels 305

Bryan Cheyette and Nadia Valman (eds.), The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture 1789-1914 / H.M. Daleski 307

Yaron Peleg, Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination / Ivan Davidson Kalmar 310

David M. Schiller, Bloch, Schoenberg, and Bernstein: Assimilating Jewish Music / Ruth HaCohen 312

Donald Weber, Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs / Stephen J. Whitfield 314

Religion, Thought, and Education

David Ellenson, After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity / Reuven Hammer 317

Peter Eli Gordon, Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy / Gregory Kaplan 319

Tamar Ross, Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism / Shmuel Shilo 323

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (ed.), Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy / Zachary Braiterman 325

Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East

Dana Arieli-Horowitz, Yozerim be'omes yeter: rezah Rabin, omanut upolitikah (Creators in overburden: Rabin's assassination, art and politics) / Gerald Cromer 267

Yoram S. Carmeli and Kalman Applbaum (eds.), Consumerism and Market Society in Israel / Eliezer Ben-Rafael 328

Michael Dumper, The Politics of Sacred Space: The Old City of Jerusalem in the Middle East Conflict / Marshall J. Breger 330

Lev Greenberg (ed.), Zikaron bemahloket: mitos, leumiyut, vedemokratiyah (Contested memory: myth, nation, and democracy) / Gerald Cromer 267

Dvora Hacohen, Immigrants in Turmoil: Mass Immigration to Israel and Its Repercussions in the 1950s and After / Derek J. Penslar 333

Don Handelman, Nationalism and the Israeli State: Bureaucratic Logic in Public Events / Michael Keren 336

Charles S. Liebman (ed.), Rezah politi: rezah Rabin urezihot politiyot bemizrah hatikhon (Political assassination: the murder of Rabin and political assassinations in the Middle East) / Gerald Cromer 267

Yoram Peri: Yad ish beahiv: rezah Rabin umilhemet hatarbut beyisrael (Brothers at war: Rabin's assassination and the cultural war in Israel) / Gerald Cromer 267

Yoram Peri (ed.), The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin / Gerald Cromer 267

Shulamit Reinharz and Mark Raider (eds.), American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise / Matthew Silver 338

Stephen Spector, Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews / Shalva Weil 341.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0195340973

9780195340976

OCLC:

163603079