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Sephardim of Sydney: Coping with Political Processes and Social Pressures
Naomi Gale
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Description for Sephardim of Sydney: Coping with Political Processes and Social Pressures
Hardback. The Sydney Jewish community is vibrant, with many communal, social and religious institutions. This book investigates the Sephardic community of Sydney - their history, their experiences as new immigrants in a host society after arriving from traditional Moslem cultures, as well as the changes they have undergone since they arrived in Australia. Num Pages: 292 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1MBFN; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 450.
The Sydney Jewish community is dynamic and vibrant, with many communal, social and religious institutions. This book investigates the Sephardic community of Sydney -- their history, their experiences as new immigrants in a host society after arriving from traditional Moslem cultures, as well as the changes they have undergone since they arrived in Australia. The Sephardic community comprises about 3,000 of the 40,000 Jews in Sydney, whose majority reside in the eastern suburbs, in Sydney's multicultural inner-city 'ethnic belt'. Although the Sephardim share some cultural features with the Jewish majority, there are substantial differences: they emphasise their cultural heterogeneity. Their ... Read more
The Sydney Jewish community is dynamic and vibrant, with many communal, social and religious institutions. This book investigates the Sephardic community of Sydney -- their history, their experiences as new immigrants in a host society after arriving from traditional Moslem cultures, as well as the changes they have undergone since they arrived in Australia. The Sephardic community comprises about 3,000 of the 40,000 Jews in Sydney, whose majority reside in the eastern suburbs, in Sydney's multicultural inner-city 'ethnic belt'. Although the Sephardim share some cultural features with the Jewish majority, there are substantial differences: they emphasise their cultural heterogeneity. Their ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845190354
SKU
V9781845190354
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-36
About Naomi Gale
Naomi Gale is Coordinator of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashkelon Academic College, an adjunct of Bar-Ilan University. She is the author of Violence Against Women: Normal or Deviant Behavior? (Heb.), and was the recipient of a Golda Meir Post Doctoral Fellowship and a Sir Zalman Cowen Post Doctoral Research Grant, both taken at the Hebrew University of ... Read more
Reviews for Sephardim of Sydney: Coping with Political Processes and Social Pressures
Provides valuable insights into the dynamics of the formation of Sephardic Jewish identity...
Professor C Kessler, The University of New South Wales. A valuable study of the problems facing a migrant ethnical community arriving in Australia...
Professor R Gabby, The University of Western Australia. A commendable example of 'salvage ethnography'... - Professor S ... Read more
Professor C Kessler, The University of New South Wales. A valuable study of the problems facing a migrant ethnical community arriving in Australia...
Professor R Gabby, The University of Western Australia. A commendable example of 'salvage ethnography'... - Professor S ... Read more