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- Title
The Emergence of the Israeli Sephardi Ultra-Orthodox Movement.
- Authors
Deshen, Shlomo
- Abstract
This article discusses the emergence of the Israeli Sephardi ultra-Orthodox movement in Israel. In the chasm that developed in the early years of mass immigration, between the small minority of Middle Eastern immigrant youth who moved to Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodoxy and the majority of youth who moved toward secularism, a new type of Middle Eastern Israeli youth has emerged. Namely, those who accept the authority of Sephardi ultra-Orthodox figures while themselves living a life of many doctrinally inconsistent parts. These practices dovetail with the contemporary narrowing of the gap between Sephardi rabbinic elitism and Sephardi folk religion. The meeting and fusion of erstwhile distant socioreligious positions constitute salient elements of the new ultra-Orthodox Sephardi movement.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; SEPHARDIM; JEWS; EMIGRATION &; immigration; SECULARISM; JUDAISM
- Publication
Jewish Social Studies, 2005, Vol 11, Issue 2, p77
- ISSN
0021-6704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/JSS.2005.11.2.77