Remaking of Israeli Judaism: The Challenge of Shas - Softcover

Lehmann, David; Siebzehner, Batia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1850658196 ISBN 13: 9781850658191

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

"Remaking Israeli Judaism" is the first comprehensive account of Shas, the most significant religious and cultural movement to have emerged in Israel since the rise of Likud in 1977. Shas brings together in an explosive mixture the religious and ethnic tensions which continue to simmer beneath the surface of Israeli Jewish society and politics. This Sephardi religious revival movement (t'shuva) is also giving birth to the first truly Israeli form of Orthodox Judaism, distinct from the still dominant Ashkenazi Yiddish-speaking version. Shas appeals especially to underprivileged Israelis, among whom a significant minority, in the name of recovering their lost glory (their 'crown') and their lost self-respect, adopt the ultra-Orthodox faith.

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About the Author

David Lehmann is Reader in Social Science at Cambridge University. Batia Siebzehner is a Research Fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Senior Lecturer at Beit Berl College.

Edition details

• Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850658196
• ISBN 13: 9781850658191
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312