1st Edition

Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity

By Norman A. Stillman Copyright 1995
114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

115 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1995. Throughout the nineteenth century the entire structure of the Ashkenazi world crumbled. What remains of Ashkenazi Jewry today is split into irreconcilable religious camps on the one hand, and a large body of secularized Jews of greater or lesser ethnicity on the other. The Sephardi and Oriental Jews, who form the other great branch of world Jewry, had a very different... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Wind in the Palace: The Initial Responses of Sephardim and Ashkenazim Compared; Chapter 2 Modernist Traditionalists — Elijah Bekhor ?azzan & Raphael Aaron Ben Simeon: Their Thought and Oeuvre; Chapter 3 “My Heart’s in the East” — Sephardi Zionism; Chapter 4 After Modernity: Popular Reassertions, Ashkenazified Religiosity, and other Contemporary Trends;

Biography

Authored by Stillman, Norman A.