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Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity (Hardcover)
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Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity (Hardcover)
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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 encounter with the
forces of modernity. This book examines some of their responses to
its challenges. The Sephardi religious leaders, who had been
historically more open to general culture, reacted with neither the
anti-traditionalism of Reform Judaism nor the Ashkenazi
ultra-Orthodox's uncompromising rejection of everything new. Their
response was rather one of active and creative halakhic engagement
coupled with a tolerant attitude toward the growing secularized
elements of their communities. Much has been written on the social,
economic, and political transformation of Sephardi and Oriental
Jewry in the modern era. However, this is the first book in English
devoted to the religious changes taking place in this important
segment of Jewry which now constitutes the majority of Jews in the
Jewish state.
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